I didn’t stay up all night watching election results roll in from across the country. It would have been way too stressful. But I did check the results as soon as I woke up the next morning and saw that a record number of women won elections. According to the L.A Times, 121 women were […]
Spoilers abound for NieR: Automata! One of my more controversial stances on video games and literature is that the video game is the best way to tell stories. So controversial, in fact, I haven’t said it to anyone yet. I’m finally feeling brave enough to defend this particular point, so here goes. Authors, put away […]
On an average rainy day in New York City (NYC), you can expect to receive a flash flood warning on your phone, or experience extreme travel delays, but you will never hear about sewage overflow. NYC operates with a combined sewer system. This means wastewater from toilets, sinks, and drains combines with stormwater runoff after […]
Alternative Pop music might not be what you think of when you think of Walden, and yet one of the more recent albums that reflects that work is Pines by Allison Sudol. Sudol is a musician turned film actor who released music under the moniker A Fine Frenzy, taken from the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sudol’s career is […]
Digging in an archive is sort of like entering a waking dream. There’s something about physically holding an object from another moment in time—something with meaning, with history, an object worth saving. It sets off the imagination. And when you come back from the past, you can feel the object resonate in the present. Throughout […]
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 […]
