Nikko Espina – The Rutgers Review

Girl, You Bald

March 30, 2015

At the start of my freshman year, I made the mistake of getting a new, “edgy” haircut. One night before a sorority dinner with my pledge sisters, I checked my h... Read More

Living in the Green – 13 Ways We Can Be Better to the Environment

February 17, 2015

Image Courtesy of charterforcompassion.org “One person can’t make a difference” is an utter cynical lie. Mother Earth needs us to care, so I have compiled a l... Read More

This is a True Story

February 1, 2015

This is a true story. In 2010, I was standing in the kitchen being judged. My father was frustrated with me. “We’re trying to fix you!” he said, looking despera... Read More

The (Ab)Normal Heart

December 5, 2014

On October 2013, I was in a Tony Award winning play called The Normal Heart, produced by the Cabaret Theatre on Douglass, which chronicled the rise of AIDS in N... Read More

Sweet, Salty, Bitter: A Semester in Israel

October 19, 2014

I used to never follow the news, and the only politics I cared for were the ones that involved me . . . until I studied abroad in Jerusalem last spring. Prior t... Read More

Lit Me, Light You

September 11, 2014

As I write this from the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, it is 1:47 AM. It is an airport like any other, with people astoundingly asleep on the bare floor whi... Read More

Queen of the Sea

July 29, 2014

The whale's weeping wobbled wondrous on the whistling wind. Sobs whittled on the descending waves. Every tear was a pool that sank into the depths of ... Read More