by Salwa Tareen | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Of Lights Hours before the New Year, a blackout fell upon the neighborhood. Electricity outages, of course, are expected in Karachi. With the ongoing gas shortage, electricity was even more coveted. If “the light” went, so would the electric stovetop, the fan, the air...
by Billy Lezra | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Damages Cleanse, tone, apply serum, moisturizer, rosehip oil—these were the five steps of my mother’s skincare routine. If you do this every day, you’ll look good as you age, she said. One, then two wrinkles bloomed between her eyebrows, like deep furrows farmers plow...
by Holly Genovese | Jul 22, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Queering the Prisoner Escape Narrative: Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” “Industry Baby,” the third single off of Lil Nas X’s 2021 album, Montero, alongside its music video, constitutes a queering of the prisoner escape narrative, a form often recognized and even...
by Randolph Marcum | Jul 21, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Lovecraft’s Nameless Things: Understanding Racial Ecologies in “Dagon” H. P. Lovecraft is everywhere these days, a multimedia star in death that he never became in life. His influence, perceptible in everything from recent noir (True Detective) to ’80s nostalgia...
by Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo | Jul 21, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Colonization and the Construction of Patriarchal Ideals into Chicanx Hip-Hop Beautiful women. Expensive cars. And groups of men standing around enjoying both. These are some of the key images associated with hip-hop. As a product of a culture that is deeply...
by Christina Santi | Jul 20, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Anything, Everything and Nothing Circle and Star Motif via Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Every day I was excited to enter my first-grade classroom. Finally, free from the shadows of my cousins and the chaos of our mothers seemingly building the parenthood...
