{"id":190452,"date":"2026-02-23T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190452\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:45:07","slug":"writing-through-your-self-discovery-the-state-hornet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190452\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing through your self-discovery \u2013 The State Hornet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Host Maya Denae Taylor sits down with writer and undeclared sophomore Bilqees Gaffar for the debut of The Final Draft podcast. The duo discusses Gaffar\u2019s writing process, published works, and what it means to navigate self-discovery and nurture community through writing.<\/p>\n<p>This episode focuses on four personal essays from Gaffar\u2019s Substack blog, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">A Place to Bloom<\/a>.\u201d Her blog explores themes of self-definition, culture, community and artistic expression.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/statehornet.com\/2025\/10\/kristeen-jardeleza-artist-show-sac-state-rw-joyce-witt-gallery-memento-vivere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> \u2018Memento Vivere\u2019 art gallery at Sac State invites students to reflect on mortality and limited time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/the-world-needs-what-you-have-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/the-world-needs-what-you-have-to<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/love-is-not-boastful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/love-is-not-boastful<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/its-okay-to-be-unsure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/its-okay-to-be-unsure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/pressure-of-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/b1lqees.substack.com\/p\/pressure-of-control<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Host Maya Denae Taylor sits down with writer and undeclared sophomore Bilqees Gaffar for the debut of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-190452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}