What Does It Take to Live a Private Life?
Clubhouse, the invitation-based audio chat app, was launched less than a year ago, but it already boasts 10 million users and a $10 billion valuation. Opening the app is like…
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Femme Flâneur: (Re)imagining the City
A detached observer of city life; a wanderer; a dreamer. Walter Benjamin affirmed the flâneur as the epitome of modern city life in The Arcades Project. Charles Baudelaire romanticized the…
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Getting Cancelled? Take a Page Out of @Glamdemon2004’s Book
Serena Shahidi, also known as @Glamdemon2004, has become one of the most recent victims of TikTok teens’ fervent cancellation of influencers. She’s since deleted the culprit TikTok, in which she…
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Changing and Waiting for It to Hurt: Love Letter to My Sophomore Year
Finishing sophomore year was weirdly a punch in the gut. Really, it makes no sense, considering I went through so much of the last eight months on autopilot, waiting passively…
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Deux Moi, Amanda Bynes, and the Ethics of Paparazzi
Curled in bed, watching a viral YouTube documentary about the life of Amanda Bynes, I was horrified. Horrified by the entertainment industry’s unreachable standards, by the money-grabbing attitude of her…
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Why Do We Have An Urge To Log?
It’s hard not to constantly share. In the age of social media, publicly sharing feels unavoidable, especially as more and more platforms emerge. But amidst the constant sharing, there exists…
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Finding Comfort in Consumerism: A Hesitant Ode to Commercial Diners
I was staring at the light hanging above my IHOP booth table at 1 AM, slowly munching mozzarella sticks and sipping the stale cup of coffee that the waiter had…
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Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?
The question of sex scenes’ value is one that’s been posed for years. On Film Twitter, the discourse is renewed every few months, with some people arguing that cinema doesn’t…
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Lizzy Goodman Talks a New Chapter in New York’s Cyclical Nightlife
Near the end of 2020, I discovered Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me in the Bathroom, an expansive oral history detailing the cultural context and changes within New York City’s rock and…
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