The Silly Things We Miss
I took these photos of Anna on a sunny autumn afternoon in Georgetown. We’ve spent the past few weeks in a quiet neighborhood with a few friends—our pod. The word…
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Red Scare and the Power of Being a Contrarian
In the title of The Cut’s 2018 profile of Red Scare’s Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan, author Noreene Malone describes the podcast as offering “a critique of feminism and capitalism…
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I Know What I Want—Don’t Tell Me It’s Stuck Up
No one has ever told me that I’m stuck up. I have my bratty moments, sure—but stuck up insinuates a kind of snobby superiority, which is something I never really…
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Why I Envy COVID Deniers
Since March, I’ve gotten into the habit of observing large groups of people who (still) get together to socialize. The ones huddled up in enclosed spaces have been especially fascinating…
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Breonna and Brutality: Why Aren’t Black Women Receiving Justice?
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman and medical worker from Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed by armed police officers during a botched drug raid on her apartment. Only one…
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Online Fatigue and the Myth of the Digital Detox
During the middle of quarantine, I read the book How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell; I thought my life was changed forever. The way the author spoke about digital…
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10 WLW Films That Aren’t White Period Dramas
There’s been a long withstanding debate on the internet—specifically Twitter—over whether there are enough LGBT films featuring people of color. With the release of the first trailer of Francis Lee’s…
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2020 Is My Year of Online Vanity
By November, I will have completed an entire year of my degree online (bar the one glorious day I had on campus in March), rehearsed and produced four separate pieces…
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To Peg or Not to Peg—That is the Question
Pegging. It’s seemingly everywhere these days—podcasts, TikToks, and even mainstream sex and love magazines like Cosmopolitan and GQ. Historically, however, the term is fairly recent, and only just beginning to…
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