Scala teaches the complexities of Swift’s work in hopes that her students can create their own thoughts and complexities about the intertwining of historical literary arts and current popular music. And on account of Scala, her students do just that – “They want to do more than I assign them…They’re open to volunteering…it’s very luxurious,” she says.

Aside from Easter eggs, Swift’s release of the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” (music) video gave us a personal insight into Swift’s love, life, and liberty as an artist, performer, and person. She’s more than the sparkles. But she’s also more than the love she lost.

“closure” compacts an experience that can go on for days, weeks, months, years, decades, I bet you even centuries, into 3 minutes and 1 second — saying goodbye without saying why.

Photo by Beth Garrabrant

The misogyny towards girls, women, even women like Taylor Swift, matters. The presence of hatred in your mind, your everyday dialogue, what we teach our children, matters.

Photo by James Speakman/AP

Whether it’s a reason to chase dreams, grow up, stay young, make friends, or anything in between, Taylor Swift and her fans know that through each other, there’s always something to give, and something to gain.

Photo by Niedermueller Photography / Getty Images / TAS Rights Management

Each of Swift’s albums carries a myriad of concepts and conversations that represent different eras of life, love, and liberty. She’s there for us through it all.

The older I get the more I see these perceptions almost immediately. The assumptions laid upon me before I’ve even uttered a word. The limitations are being placed instantaneously, and I too am sick of it. I want to be complex. I want the world to acknowledge as many facets of me as they can, or at least try to…

Swift’s art shows us she’s had too many physical instances with devils and angels, she has no room to believe in the ones we can’t see.

Photo by Beth Garrabrant

“The Archer” reveals to listeners what feels like Swift’s diary — a showcase of her most naked, soul-bearing, tortured thoughts and woeful, wide-eyed wonders that feel all too similar to your own.

Photo by Abby McMorris

As a long-time Swiftie, lover of love, and a tortured poet myself, it was enthralling witnessing Travis Kelce accompany Taylor Swift on stage, symbolically putting the color back in her face and loving her back to life. Unpacking the artistic meaning behind Kelce’s cameo with Swift during The Eras Tour is inspiring, as is realizing the bar Kelce set for women everywhere looking for their long-time lover — if he wanted to, he would.

Photo by Gareth Cattermole

Through her art, specifically through songs like “Clara Bow,” Swift demands we change the “It Girl” curse by challenging us to recognize the past in order to change the future.

While you usually disembark from a flight and expect you and your fellow passengers to remain strangers, I wondered how many people from that flight I may trade friendship bracelets with later that week.