A Year Out
By Katelyn Ohashi The morning of January 12th, 2019, started off just like any other meet day. We traveled only about an hour out of LA … Continue reading A Year Out
By Katelyn Ohashi The morning of January 12th, 2019, started off just like any other meet day. We traveled only about an hour out of LA … Continue reading A Year Out
By Katelyn One second, one glance and you’ve already formed an opinion. Not one that dives deeper than the surface, but one that decides whether you want to or not. Of course, it would be a lot easier if an … Continue reading The Ugly Truth
By Katelyn Ohashi It has been quite some time since I last wrote on here, but as I enter into my last quarter at UCLA, I find that my life will unleash a whole new set of ideals and … Continue reading Who Runs The World
In a world where most people only speak about the “good”, it can sometimes make you feel alone when you’re experiencing the “bad”, abnormal, weird, and scary things within your natural body. I know I have felt alone and questioned, thinking that I was the only one to had ever experience these things. One morning, in 2008, I woke up to a strange, shiny, hard circle on my left bicep. Scared and alarmed, I went straight to my mom. Neither of us had ever seen anything like it so I went to a dermatologist and got a biopsy, where they … Continue reading Living Normal Abnormally
By Katelyn Ohashi Gymnastics… As young kids, we wake up and can’t sit still until our parents tell us it is time to go to gym. The joy that once pulsated through our bodies is far too soon diminished and … Continue reading Demanding Change and Moving Forward…
By Katelyn Ohashi Unconscious, awake, a stranger or friend. These are the stories we must defend. Far too often we make excuses for these offenders, But any time you force sexual activity you are a contender. Was it what I … Continue reading Sexual Assault
By Katelyn As time goes on it becomes harder to establish the things we love about ourselves without being seen as cocky. We fill it in our heads that we cannot truly believe these things as people fill … Continue reading Self Love
By Katelyn Did the gaping hole eating at my insides ever fill up or was it just temporarily covered? Unfortunately, my freshman year of college, the … Continue reading Dear No One, This is For Me
By Katelyn Ohashi Continue reading Dear Voices
By Katelyn Ohashi Continue reading Dear Standards