Nina Schmidt
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Arts and Creative
Banned Book Review: Fahrenheit 451
In the ashes of Montag’s former life, Bradbury gives his readers a bittersweet tale about well-meaning citizens, not political revolutionaries.
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Scheherazade reimagined: An interview with “1001 Frames” Director Mehrnoush Alia
“You can really scare somebody by just watching them. And the audition camera, I think, has that a lot.”
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Americana Has a Problem: Cowboy Carter and the Country Renaissance
Beyoncé met night one of her Cowboy Carter tour in the manner that every Western starts off with: in a…
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Pinay Punk: Beabadoobee at the Fox Pomona
Her artistry had proven one thing: rock can be both feminine and Filipina.
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Filipinx and Marshallese Hip Hop: Manifesting a Decolonized Future
Hip hop simultaneously unites and mobilizes these populations on the basis of challenging historically white systems of power
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Dancing through Disillusionment: Sarah and the Sundays at The Roxy 4/24
In rock there is release.
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Star Trek’s “Prime Directive:” An Exercise in Cultural Relativism
“By [positioning] the Prime Directive’s ethical implications as a crucial plot point of many Star Trek episodes, the franchise also…
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Envisioning Care
If seeing is believing, then to bear witness is to believe in something more.
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I. How
“cunning embers still dance on your grave, relentless, carving ground and kissing dripping amber skies with tongue”
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Star Spangled Swan Song
“Razed brows over mouths turned down, we are taught from cradle to coffin to never speak ill of the dead.…
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