By Abigail Mengesha Tired of your generic island destinations? Monthly visits to museums and art exhibits? Well, the tourism industry has a solution for you: slum tourism. It’s no secret that the world is abundant with inequality, so why not include it in your plans this summer? After all, it’s something completely different, maybe even … Continue reading
Tag Archives: fall 2018 issue
Call-Out Culture is CANCELLED– Here is Why
By Jean Cambareri Did you see Logan Paul’s suicide forest video? He’s so cancelled! What about Taylor Swift, with her snaky alter-ego? She’s cancelled! Or Julianne Hough, who wore blackface on Halloween? Cancelled! How about everything Kanye West has done and said in the past few months? He is, most definitely, cancelled! But Logan Paul … Continue reading
Visualizing the Lifecycle of the Disposable Coffee Cup
By Alyssa Anderson Coffee is the liquid gold that oils America’s gears. In this meritocracy, time is money, and coffee is productivity. It stains every carpet in every office; it brews constantly across the nation. Good ol’ America, always in a rush, always on the go, nothing screams luxury more than a vessel of energy … Continue reading
[.,THE GRIMY, GRIMY STORY.,] visibility and violence during the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strikes
By Sophie May Acknowledgements: The photographs used in this project are not mine!! Thank you to the many disparate sources from which I obtained them, and to the people who originally took them. Citations: Recalling the City’s Garbage Strike of 1968 [VIDEO] Today in NYC History: The Great Garbage Strike of 1968 https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-secret-world-of-garbagemen/274536/ https://www.vintag.es/2013/12/nyc-garbage-strike-1968.html … Continue reading
This Game is Trash: An Interview with Conor Garity
By Annika Bjerke On a blustery Monday morning in early November at approximately 11:43 AM I received the following email: “Hey! No rush but I think I’m here? I have an orange jacket on and I put a dark green hat on too. On a bench next to a trio of heads of people, across … Continue reading
Living Inside a Man’s Mouth
By Elise Cording When I dove headfirst into the dating scene at Cornell during my sophomore year, I didn’t know that I was sure to meet some classic characters. I immediately became enamored with the “masculine frat boy”—charming, self-assured, flirtatious, always in control. There was a certain sense of safety and danger in a guy … Continue reading
Apex
By D. Albè Bogetti Pérez It’s easier to imagine the past with opened eyes. It’s true. We are convinced, obviously, that this is impossible, so every time that we want to relive a memory that has stumbled upon our unsuspecting minds, we close our eyes and surrender and wait. Then, our brains, deprived of light … Continue reading
Thoughts on a Kiss
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Theorizing the Final Girl: Carol Clover and the Cultural Value of SCREAM
By Anna Grace Lee “What’s your favorite scary movie?” Early in Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher movie, Scream, the killer asks the protagonist, Sidney, this now-iconic question. Sidney replies that she doesn’t watch scary movies, because “They’re all the same, some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act, who’s always running up the stairs when … Continue reading