Deconstructing Misogynoir: A 20-Year Retrospective on Missy Elliott’s “Under Construction”
By Monique Ezeh Released in 2002, “Under Construction” is American rapper Missy Elliott’s fourth studio album. Produced largely by Timbaland…
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Breaking Bad Gets the Tumblr Treatment
By Sylvie Moran “Breaking Bad” is back, although you already know that. If you inhabit, even peripherally, the same spheres…
Blonde’s Ambition Falls Dangerously Short
By Eden Al Qahtani In a collage on my bedroom wall, I have two pictures of Marilyn Monroe. The first…
The Multiverse and Meta-Narrative
By Cameron Lipp Dublin, 1952. Three years before he will create his cat, Erwin Schrödinger warns an unsuspecting audience of…
Taylor Swift Has Been Sentenced to Fat!
By Julia Keikilani Edwards Taylor Swift has yet again incited online discourse. This is not a new phenomenon—since her debut…
Please Eat Me: Emma Chamberlain, Cannibalism, and the Existentialism of Mediatized Consumerism
By Maia Caleca When I’m tired of being conscious, I open TikTok. Between polemic injustice, climate change, and the pandemic,…
Como La Flor… Pero No Se Marchita: The Ethics of Keeping Selena Alive
By Samuel Wu When my mom calls me and tells me that Selena is coming out with a new album,…
Armie Hammer, Hollywood, and the Limits of #MeToo
By M. Erhardt “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up,” delivers Gloria Swanson in the iconic ‘50s film…
Animal Agriculture and the Environment
By Rocky Jacquet Adopting a vegan or vegetarian diet, shifting household energy sources to cleaner alternatives, taking more public transportation,…
A State of Dreaming: National Myths, Sacrifice, and Tangible Dreams
By James Freyland Your body enters a peculiar state about 70 minutes into your sleep cycle. Brain waves begin to…