an interview with
SYD THE CREATIVE BY NZINGHA FLORENCE
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n College, you’re thrown into this new world where you’re discovering yourself. Imagine then adding a relationship with a whole other human being; yea, it isn’t always easy. Sydney Price, aka SydTheCreative, is a Sophomore Psychology major at Spelman College. She bravely takes on the feat of exposing all the beautiful and not so beautiful aspects of loving another person as a college student. The creative Sydney is a well-known videographer and YouTuber in the Atlanta University Center with 3.9 thousand subscribers and over 33 thousand views on her most known poetry narrative video, “To My Next Boyfriend.” Her most recent web series “College Students Explain” delves into the perspective of black college students and their relationships, both the good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly. “I was inspired by Jubilee Media and The Skin Deep on YouTube to start this series, but I wanted to center my series around college students because I feel like the college experience is really a pivotal time. In terms of approaching love, the black experience is much different and there’s a lot of different things that come into play when thinking about dating or having those romantic experiences. I think that plays a large role in who we choose to date and how we choose to date,” says Price. The “College Students Explain” web series currently consists of four videos, titled: How They Fell in Love, Why They Are Single, How To Love Someone Through Trauma, and Why They Broke Up. Each video gives the alternate perspectives of a college man and woman who had some form of relationship with each other, led by a stack of
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questions they pull from and ask one another. Here is an excerpt from the couple Sharadiant Turner, sophomore at Spelman College, and Collin Concepcion, sophomore at Morehouse College. In the video COLLEGE STUDENTS EXPLAIN: How To Love Someone Through Trauma. Sharadiant:
When was the moment you knew that you
loved me? Collin:
The moment I knew that I loved you… There were actually moments here and there… You know, it’d be a joke, one time it’d be something really smart you would say. Another, it’d be something really cute you would do. You know, it all actually related and came together as one. It did come out a little bit late, but definitely, when I meant it, I said it. I mean everything about it too, it hasn’t changed… not one bit. Collin:
What is our biggest conflict in our relationship and what can we do to solve it? Sharadiant:
We handle our issues differently. When you have an issue with something you tend to hold on to it until it eventually blows up and it’s like a big thing, whereas for me, if I see something, I say something right then and there. Collin: I don’t like for me to, you know, show you that I can
be weak in some points. Sharadiant:
I don’t think you showing your feelings is
being weak. THE SQUEEZE
