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Winona Guo

A Yes to Life: Part II

After five minutes with literally anyone, I’ll look up and be like, you’re Fire Nation. You’re Water. It’s almost like that’s my manual for understanding human behavior.

A Yes to Life: Part I

Avatar: The Last Airbender became the drama that I was living my life through.

In Pursuit of a Childlike Ideal

ATLA’s childlike ideal shows us a model for returning to our original enlightenment. It shows us that we can be less like an arrow, and more like Sokka’s boomerang — we can finally embark home, to the child hero already waiting within us.

The Appropriation of Avatar

American culture likes to identify its heroes and villains; Avatar the Last Airbender creators Koniezko and DiMartino are neither. For me, they are not “canceled.” But contrary to public worship, their work bears harm too.