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Category: Arts & Culture

Submersed Beneath the Waves: An Exploration of SZA’s SOS

Posted on February 4, 2023December 4, 2023 by Aiden Wright

By: Aiden Wright ’26 “I just want what’s mine.” The lyric lurches with the weight of conviction and lands withresolute certainty, both a proclamation and a promise. In SOS, the namesake track of the album,SZA announces her resurgence, setting forth her intention to cement herself as a vocal talent ofour generation – and that she…

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Sexual Violence is Not Art: A Critique of Andrew Dominik’s Blonde

Posted on December 3, 2022December 4, 2023 by Amelia Winn

By Amelia Winn ’25 Managing Editor “There’s something in it to offend everyone,” Andrew Dominik proudly claimed when asked about the critiques of his wildly incendiary film, Blonde. With a 42% on Rotten Tomatoes and armed with arthouse film aesthetics, Dominik has induced an outcry in response to its inaccuracies about the life of Norma…

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Heaven By Marc Jacobs: An Exploitation of POC

Posted on October 14, 2022December 4, 2023 by Edward Nguyen

By Edward Nguyen ’25 Managing Editor With the recent resurgence of the Y2K craze, fashion houses like Blumarine and GCDS have incorporated early 2000s trends into their runway shows from New York to Paris Fashion Weeks; however, when discussing Y2K in fashion, one name in specific comes to mind: heaven by Marc Jacobs. From hosting…

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Riot Grrrl: Revolution or Exclusion?

Posted on September 30, 2022December 4, 2023 by Gianna Campillo

By Gianna Campillo ’25 Managing Editor Chasing the nostalgia of the ‘90s, teenage girls nowadays have replaced zines with digital mood boards. Their pinterest boards overflow with collages portraying female punk rock icons clipped to pink pages with colorful stickers and feminist adages. The inspiration? The feminist punk subcultural movement “Riot Grrrl.”. Looking beyond the…

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A Marxist Reading of Mitski’s Working for the Knife

Posted on September 30, 2022March 13, 2023 by Chidima Anekwe

By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-in-Chief A spectre is haunting Spotify… The woman, the myth, the legend, Mitsuki Miyawaki (more commonly known as Mitski) has recently blessed us all with her sixth studio album, Laurel Hell. The lead single, “Working for the Knife,” marks Mitski’s grand return from her two-year hiatus, a period in which, seemingly,…

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