Bare magazine

The issues and online editorials you'll find below are from my time as Creative Director of BARE Magazine,  UC Berkeley’s premier arts, fashion, and lifestyle publication. Under my direction, BARE has gained prominence on campus, and has also garnered national recognition in publications such as the New York Times and Teen Vogue. An entirely student-run publication, BARE publishes a print publication once a semester.

Feature 1

I am in line to re-board the Megabus in Lost Hills, California, and I have fully come to terms with the fact that I am, at the age of twenty-one, an old woman...

Feature 2

Our eighteenth issue is olfactory ambrosia. For me, it is the synesthetic transformation of many of my earliest memories...

Feature 3

We chose “me” as the theme for #17 mostly because we liked the way it sounded. “The Me Issue” had that 1992 rawness— like the collaged, in-your-face videography of “The Real World” intro...

Why? Why is my bed linen pink? That's right, I washed them with my red duvet cover last autumn. Why did I just eat my body weight in table grapes? (or rather how...?) Why have I been listening to Tim McGraw's "It's Your Love" on loop for the last hour?... 

Verdant was initially a narcissistic revelation. I took a photo of myself on what else, Snapchat, and colored over my face in various shades of green, captioned it "Verdant." I was wearing my emerald green, whale-rib corduroy corduroy coat that day too— it all felt very Matisse at the time...