The Irreverence of the Fancam
Scrolling through Twitter on any given day, one can encounter the delightful internet creation that is the fancam: video clips of celebrities mashed together with a sparkly filter and a…
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Damien Jeon
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Let’s Stop Glorifying Men in Maid Outfits
In a TikTok with almost 2 million likes, user @plumsoju laments to the camera, “You say you want boys in a maid outfit. Why am I still single? Where’s my…
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Anonymous Interviews: Are Your Friends Actually Social Distancing?
There have been a number of rude awakenings caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps none more alarming than realizing that you can’t always have faith in your friends. In…
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Writers Dating Writers: (Not) A How-To
A quick Google search of “dating a writer” will yield dozens of listicles on how to handle the blue-lit troglodytism of a modern wordsmith. Most of this advice is geared…
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Melanin & Stuff: I Shouldn’t Want to Be Pretty
I was in line to fill my bottle at the water fountain, standing behind a girl in the grade below me. When she finally moved over, I told her: “Oh…
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The Untold Truth of Being a Twitch Thot
“Are you…watching porn?” We were on a Greyhound bus traveling across the Midwest, and I could swear I heard moaning from the seat over. Out of the corner of my…
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Does She…You Know…Listen to Girl in Red?
One of the first questions I ask when I’m getting to know people is what kind of music they like. Music and identity are, for whatever reason, inextricably linked. The…
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The Price of Being a Grimes Fan
When I was fourteen, I spent most nights sleepily combing through the Wikipedia pages of new Spotify artists I’d encountered. I didn’t know much about music, so I broadened my…
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Exploring the Artistry of 1960s Space Age Fashion
Roger Vadim’s 1968 space drama Barbarella takes kitschy sci-fi to an alternate dimension, one of campy eroticism. It cares more about sex politics than elevating what was a largely neglected…
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