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Slave Chains and Faggots and Camp… Oh My!
Illustrations by Krissy Pelley Oh, camp: that elusive other-world of lampoon and exaggerated meta-theatricality. Where RuPaul, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and Toto kick back and roast the world. Since the dawn...
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Wading to Taki
Illustration by Sophia Terazawa A cuckoo coo-coos while flying. Nearby, a congregation of red-throated flycatchers quarrel for space among the bougainvillea vines. I imagine them...
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Horror 101: Top Tips For Raising Your Demon Baby
This is a guest post from the blog brainfarts, which features pop culture, feminism and cats. Spoiler warning: Braindead, Carrie, The Fifth Child, Frankenstein, Grace, The Innocents, The Orphanage,...
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On Wednesday, December 9th Brown University’s administration hosted a Faculty Forum to discuss the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). You can read the plan here, however, we recommend that you...
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...
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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)...
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Dominican Anti-Blackness
Illustration by Kelly Wang *** We were socialized from an early age to name blackness. To taunt it, to call it names. My friends and I compared skin colors as we played the “who’s blacker?” game....
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Reclaiming Rock and Roll: Black Women Thinkers in Rock Music
Growing up, my dad listened to rock music consistently and naturally this musical taste rubbed off on me. However, I always felt a disconnect between those promoted as the face of rock (white men) and...
View ArticleWe Build They Burn Pt. 1 of 6
bluestockings magazine is very proud and excited to feature Khari Jackson’s comic “We Build They Burn: The Impacts of white Supremacy on Black Families and Communities and the Foster Care to Prison...
View ArticleWhy Fox’s New Show Pitch Has Hit a Homerun
In my family, baseball is religion. Small prayers are said at Yankee games; our cathedral was the old Yankee Stadium; our annual pilgrimage is to Cooperstown, New York for the National Baseball Hall of...
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Read a Zine! Indigenous People’s Day Edition: 7 Native Zines to Read Right Now
Hi, and welcome to the first installment of Read a Zine! To celebrate and elevate the voices of indigenous peoples, this is a list of native zines for you to explore. Links of where to read or buy are...
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Policing the Planet (A Storify)
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. On Friday, October 14, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, and Pete White...
View ArticleA Playlist for the Aspiring Afrofuturist
“Afrofuturism bridges so many aspects of our culture, from African mythology, art and hip-hop to politics, comic books and science” – Ytasha L. Womack What is afrofuturism? Afrofuturism is a Black...
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Raunch as Resistance: A Black Femme Mixtape
Nicki Minaj’s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape on repeat was the soundtrack to my ninth grade life. As I sat at the cafeteria’s colored girls table in my almost all white high school, my friends and I talked...
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