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Feminist Tracks: Kill J’s “You Have Another Lover”
Not much is known about the Danish duo Kill J. via Ja Ja Ja Music Composed of Kill (Lennart Rasmussen, producer) and J (Julie Aargard, vocals), the duo has released a few tracks from their upcoming...
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Marvelous Maternova: A Virtual Marketplace For Midwife Technologies
When I think of technology, I imagine launching massive metallic satellites into planetary orbit and digitally reconstructed images of dinosaurs. “Appropriate technology” rests in peace as a buzzword...
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Savage Patriotism: Being Black and Native on the Fourth of July
It’s my first Fourth of July away from home. Home being a tiny township in the middle of New Mexico, about a twenty minute ride from the Navajo Reservation where I was born. To me, Independence Day has...
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Flor Veinte Collective: An Interview
Regina Larre Campuzno (Maladama) and Valerie Peczek (Valey) have teamed up in their Oberlin afterlives to start a music production group that works with “female, trans*, and gender non-conforming...
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Shrink to Fit
“We’ve got to take it back. We sleep to sew the seams that we oppose. We shrink to fit in our pre-assigned roles. Resist with each stitch. Split the seams and start all over again. Cut the pattern that...
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Toni Morrison: Our Pick for Brown U. Lecture Board
Imagine sitting in the same room as Toni Morrison and being able to ask her a question, face to face. Unlike many other speaker series on campus, the Brown Lecture Board opens the floor to the entire...
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Representing Authentically: All Through The Night
At the risk of losing credibility for my five years spent in Cleveland, OH, I confess the stories I was told about Pittsburgh, PA were unfounded. I declaimed the merits of Pittsburgh through prideful...
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Pointing Fingers: An Examination of Classroom Conduct
Content Warning: Rape Culture “But what about the vengeful women?” I had just completed my “speech to change an attitude” assignment for Persuasive Communication class, arguing that in sexual assault...
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Obliteration Of The Selfie
Content originally featured in RE: SHE zine in collaboration with the Bell Gallery. Yayoi KusamaSelf-Portrait 2008Acrylic on canvas227.3 × 181.3 cm A year ago, on the occasion of Yayoi Kusama’s...
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AstroPHE Astrology for Your January ’15
~click to see your reading~ Aquarius (January 21st – February 18th) Pisces (February 19th – March 20th) Aries (March 21st – April 19th) Taurus (April 20th – May 20th) Gemini (May 21st – June 20th)...
View ArticleNew Years Resolutions for an Ally to #BlackLivesMatter
When a friend mentioned she was going to the Millions March in New York, I knew that if I was determined to be an ally, I had to go. I made the trip with confidence. I was being the “right” kind of...
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Retrograde is Over But the Struggle Continues
Image by Emma Lloyd Yesterday marked the end of our latest retrograde cycle, guiding a supposed return to normalcy whereby Mercury, the House of Communication and Travel, returned direct. For those...
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Hidden Costs in Haute Couture: Illuminating the Consequences of Cheap...
*content notice: mention of sexual assault “I was trapped. It was pitch black and there was no air. I cried for my mother but all I could hear were the cries of my colleagues. Several dead bodies were...
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AstroPHE Astrology for April ’15
Do you smell the spring? Yeah, me neither. W/e it’s April! Already over it? Same. So in honor of wanting it to be spring when it’s really not and **~radical self-care~** ima keep this month’s...
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Carnival Fever: Caribbean Feminist in the Soca Fete
Author shown on the right. “But don’t you feel naked out there, and objectified?” “Who are you performing for exactly?” “These things happen in that many cities outside of the Caribbean?” “Wait,...
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The Burden of Representation: A Post-Structural Analysis of the Emoji Update
Depending on your texting aesthetic, you may or may not have noticed the most recent Emoji update. For the more spartan texters, emojis are a set of ideograms accessed via a supplemental keyboard when...
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The Dream of Me
Illustration by Camille Coy In April of this year, like many other ninth graders across the United States, I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The novel’s central plot revolves around...
View ArticleMy Hair Is Not Your Concern
HAIR “Is that your hair?” This was not, by any means, the first time I had been asked this. I get it quite often. I always answer truthfully, although it always baffles me why people don’t think of...
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The Ambivalence of Empowerment
The Free the Nipple campaign has been in and out of the media limelight since December 2013 when Lina Esco met an onslaught of censorship during her attempt to release a new film. The feature length...
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Going Home
I have been spending my summer in the steaming hot hallways of public housing, knocking on Korean tenants’ doors to talk about issues they face. Come inside, they say. “밥묵었나?” I nod, but they still...
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