by Karen Marks On Thursday, October 27, Twitter announced that over the next few months it would phase out the video app, Vine, due to financial reasons. After ten months of foolishness including a plague of clowns and a looming election that satirizes itself, 2016 still manages to outdo itself. While Vine wasn’t necessarily a…
Category: Pop Culture
Solange Takes Her Seat at the Table
by Azaria King This is a year of black girl magic. With Rihanna’s Anti release and Beyoncé’s Lemonade drop, who knew it could get better? Released September 30th, Solange’s new album A Seat at The Table eloquently captures exactly what it means to be black in this country. Even more so, how she is able…
How to Get Away with Too-High Stakes
by Sohum Pal How to Get Away with Murder is one of ABC’s most popular shows–and for good reason. It is a “prestige drama” in every sense of the phrase: its characters inevitably embody wealth and privilege, if sometimes hard-earned; the primary plot device, training in the work of the law at a upper-tier university,…
Why Moana Isn’t My Pacific Islander Feminist Heroine
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) Disney is marching out a new kind of heroine for its next princess movie – a young woman with no romantic interest, a thicker body frame, and fierce pride in her cultural heritage. In the trailer for Moana released on September 15th, Disney promises to celebrate Pacific Islander cultures. Yet despite the…
A Tribe Called Red Releases Third Album: “We Are the Halluci Nation”
by Kodi Alvord (Diné) “We are the tribe that they cannot see.” These powerful words from American Indian Movement activist John Trudell open A Tribe Called Red’s (ATCR) newest album, “We Are the Halluci Nation,” a musical manifesto of Native resistance expressed through pan-Indigenous collaboration and solidarity. The album reads as one flowing narrative of genocide,…