Last year, I reviewed Angie Thomas’s debut novel The Hate U Give. Marketed as the Black Lives Matter book, the film rights sold before the copies hit the shelves. With few exceptions, The Hate U Give has remained atop the Young Adult New York Times Bestseller list since its publication. It tells the story of Starr Carter […]

Girls need superheroes. Not just any superheroes, but female ones. They need to see themselves portrayed on screen as strong and bold. Representation in media and pop culture matters. Seeing yourself, or someone you can relate to on screen, provides validation and gives you a prism through which to see yourself. It allows you to […]

The stock market crash and subsequent Great Depression of 1929 brought with it an uproar that American society had never been seen before. That Depression lasted a decade, hitting its low in 1933, leaving more than 15 million Americans unemployed. America’s economic state during the Depression not only brought about great financial concerns, but concerns […]

Digital assistants are idealized as the ultimate technological tool, built to make our lives easier. Apple’s Siri, Google’s Home, and Amazon’s Alexa are the most popular “intelligence” assistants with ever increasing features—managing the lighting and temperature of one’s home, placing online orders, and pretty much offering a plethora of information at one’s disposal. The ad […]

Have you heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Let’s call it the GPGP, and it is the largest accumulation of oceanic plastic pollution in the world. The Ocean Clean Up is trying to clean it up. The GPGP was formed by the North Pacific Ocean current that draws plastic pollution into the center of […]

Friends. “What are they?!” That’s the question posed in Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play ‘Art,‘ dramatically re-imagined in a recent off-Broadway production at FIAF‘s Florence Gould Hall. Co-produced by the Netherlands-based experimental theatre collectives tg STAN and Dood Paard, the revival transferred to New York as a part of FIAF’s annual Crossing the Line Festival, which presents international (primarily French […]

When I first heard about the accusations being levied against Brett Kavanaugh I wasn’t shocked. I wish I were. I wish a Supreme Court nominee being accused of sexual assault was surprising. I wish that I were shaken by the fact that he was being defended by the GOP. But I’m jaded. This is just […]

“Immortality is accomplished by creating consciousness in self-replicating machines that can be distributed throughout the cosmos.”—Bina48, social android. I first learned about Bina48 at a conference I attended earlier this year called Vision and Technology: Toward a More Just Future. It was here that transdisciplinary artist, Stephanie Dinkins, discussed an ongoing art project in which […]