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All content by Abbie Allison
BookTok has brought many people to the new hobby of reading.

Opinion | Smut, shame and sexism: Booktok’s bad rap

Abbie Allison, Contributing Columnist October 5, 2025

When the BookTok trend on TikTok amassed popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, crowds made up of almost entirely women found a renewed love of reading. Some of the most popular titles that emerged on...

Opinion | Laughing when nothing is funny: The politics of comedic censorship

Opinion | Laughing when nothing is funny: The politics of comedic censorship

Abbie Allison and Ella Seaton September 28, 2025

ABC announced the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Sept. 17. President Donald Trump made his thoughts on Kimmel’s removal clear in a post on Truth Social, stating,...

Opinion | Selling the South: Gentrifying Alabama’s Appalachian culture

Opinion | Selling the South: Gentrifying Alabama’s Appalachian culture

Abbie Allison, Contributing Columnist September 17, 2025

Take a walk around downtown Tuscaloosa, and you’ll see it: $80 houndstooth sweatshirts, boutique “Southern belle” dresses and Dixieland Delight-emblazoned mugs line the shelves of souvenir stores,...

In a world of extreme social media usage without guardrails for misinformation, media literacy seems to have decreased.

Opinion | The untimely death of media literacy

Abbie Allison, Contributing Columnist September 3, 2025

Every time I scroll on social media, there is at least one post that leaves me with the same dull questions: What happened to thinking? When exactly did thinking about the media we consume fall out of...

Opinion | When tragedy becomes entertainment: The real harm behind true crime

Opinion | When tragedy becomes entertainment: The real harm behind true crime

Abbie Allison, Contributing Columnist March 30, 2025

On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German were dropped off at a popular hiking trail in the small town of Delphi, Indiana, intent on spending the day off from school...

Call Me [Brackets] accepting submissions for spring issues

Call Me [Brackets] accepting submissions for spring issues

Abbie Allison, Contributing Writer March 19, 2025

Call Me [Brackets], a student-run literary journal, is seeking submissions for its spring issue until April 1. Founded in 2018, Call Me [Brackets] has built a reputation in the Alabama literary scene....

Opinion | Rewriting the narrative: Why creative writers should embrace fanfiction

Opinion | Rewriting the narrative: Why creative writers should embrace fanfiction

Abbie Allison, Contributing Columnist March 5, 2025

When you hear the word “fanfiction,” what do you think of? Do you picture the orange gleam of Wattpad stories, the bullet-pointed lists of Tumblr imagines or a carefully filtered search on Archive...