What’s the Point of “Fake Accounts”?
One of the best sentences in Fake Accounts stands on its own, separated from the narrator’s musings on dating apps and the 2010s: “At some point you have to admit…
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Oops!… We Did It Again: Why We Get Off on Women’s Pain
On February 5, 2021, The New York Times dropped a feature-length documentary chronicling Britney Spears’ turbulent rise to pop stardom. While Britney stans well-versed in #FreeBritney discourse may not have…
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Blind Worship and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
When you’re first getting into film, you tend to hear the same names repeated over and over again: Fincher, Scorsese, and, most of all, Tarantino. As a young cinephile, I…
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Why You Should Reject Music Elitism
There’s a scene in Hulu’s adaption of High Fidelity that sums it up pretty well: season one, episode four. Strangers clad in feather-adorned coats with glitter on their cheeks swap…
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Middle School Ends, But “Pen15” Is Forever
Middle school sux. We know this in the same way we know that if you have underage sex, you will be the first to die when your campsite is attacked…
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How TV About Getting Lost Taught Me About Survival
Early in the pandemic, we collectively tuned in to a show or binged a series because it was a welcome reminder that others were out there. TV was the lone…
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An Ode to Garage Bands and Punk Shows Past
It’s around 6 PM on a foggy July afternoon in the Sunset District of San Francisco. I’ve just spent half an hour nervously trying to find legal parking, which has…
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r/WallStreetBets Was Never David
Since the unprecedented surge in GameStop stock prices on January 28th, the now-famous subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been compared to David taking down a hedge fund Goliath. The analogy is understandable.…
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Foucault, Data, and Human Intimacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
What is really mine anymore? On any given day, I’m letting little bits and pieces of my personal life become available to someone—or something—else. I don’t read the terms and…
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