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“Whitey on the Moon”: Exploring the Celestial Geography of Black Horse Riding in Nope

Posted on October 20, 2022November 26, 2022 by Contributing Writers

By Nasser Eid ’25 Staff Writer “It’s always night, otherwise we wouldn’t need light.” Thelonious Monk “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Zora Neale Hurston I waited three weeks and a day to watch Jordan Peele’s Nope. It was the thriller of the summer, and I…

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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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Lessons from the Mother of Love

Posted on February 28, 2022October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

Why do Black people die early? Last year, the Marshall Project reported that Black Americans—at nearly every age—die at higher rates than their white counterparts. Lorraine Hansberry, 34. Martin Luther King Jr., 39. James Baldwin, 63. Google their names and so many of their pictures appear in black-and-white. Much of Blackness is prematurely historicized, but these…

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