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Entertainment
The Musical Shift from Sound to Poetic Lyricism: A Rise in Feminine Qualities
This new wave of “girl music” reimagines “feminine rage” as a slow burn of emotion. It features introspective emotive songs…
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Respectability Politics in the Music Industry
The music sphere is so much more than the sparkles and glamour that it attempts to convey in the media.…
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Stigma Around Female Rappers
The stigma surrounding women in the music industry, particularly rap, is an indication of broader and extremely pervasive institutional sexism…While…
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Quarantined but Dancing: All My Favorite Songs While the World Is Closed
These are not songs to mourn these times but to get both groovy and cozy.
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Entertainment
A (Brief) Alternative History of Punk
Punk is about being fed up, yes, but it’s also about creating spaces for marginalized communities to have their voices…
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Not Everything is Love: Why We Need to Kill the “Ride or Die” Chick
America is a motherfucka to Black women just as much as it is to Black men. Perhaps even more so…
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Campus Life
The Diversity of UCLA’s Diversity Requirement
The following article provides a brief commentary on UCLA’s diversity requirement and looks at one class offered through the program.
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Arts and Creative
Honoring the Legacy of Lesbian Blues Singers
The work and life stories left behind by lesbian singers Gladys Bentley, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, and Lucille Bogan allow contemporary…
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