By STEPHANIE CARMODY Art By MAGIC SUN One of my favorite movie quotes is from the cinematic masterpiece Sing Street. Set in the 1990s, a coming-of-age Irish schoolboy runs into a mysterious, older girl who he’s immediately struck by. Their first … Continue reading Meet and Greet: Who are all these people on campus?
By SESHA KAMMULA Art By ANNIKA BJERKE When I was younger, the only movie my family owned on DVD was Finding Nemo. I’ve probably accumulated days of time where I was glued to the screen, internalizing three key messages: 1. Just … Continue reading Food for Thought: fish are food, not friends
By NATHAN CHAZAN Art By LEO LEVY I’ve long been taken with body horror as a subgenre of cult filmmaking. I grew up in Toronto, the home of David Cronenberg and brutalist architecture, so a lot of movies and works that … Continue reading My Life with Body Horror
By LUBY KIRIAKIDI Art By ANNIKA BJERKE Food. If we’re not talking about the weather, we’re talking about food. To eat is to live. Food is culture. Food is family. Food is love, faith, hope. Food is self. You are what … Continue reading Mainstream Eating Habits As Self-Imposed Theocracies: Thoughts from an Unorthodox Sinner
By KRISTEN WALSH Tupac vs. Biggie. Meek Mill vs. Drake. Jay-Z vs. Nas. “Beef” has been a prevalent trend in rap history. The notion of “beef” has been a big commercial pull in hip hop; consumers feed on drama. The … Continue reading Beef Rap: how beef between rap artists undermines their activism
By KATHIE JIANG I’m about to describe a strange chapter of my life: when I was 12 years old with Internet access and a strong sense of righteousness, I chose to abruptly adopt a vegetarian diet. I was raised on … Continue reading 12 and A Die-hard PETA Supporter: my first misguided foray into PETA’s online activism and vegetarianism
By JESSICA BROFSKY Art By MANON ELISE GROS “There’s no such thing as truth,” says Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding in the biopic I, Tonya. “Everyone has their own truth.” Twenty-three years after “the whack heard round the world,” when Shane … Continue reading Tonya Harding: a shining American star
By JACK JONES Art By OLIVIA BONO Chess first came to me in the same way that Legos and Playmobil sets did: a group of characters, … Continue reading Not so Black and White: chess and gender politics
By ERIN LYNCH Art By ANNIKA BJERKE “Where’s the beef?” Meat… You’re right in liking it.” “Indispensable in every household.” “The yardstick of protein foods.” Meat advertisements in the 1950s solidified the role of beef as a staple food constituting an … Continue reading The Morals of Meat: reconciling cultural symbolism with environmental awareness
