By: Ritisha Keswani May 30, 2020June 7, 2020 CULTURE, OPINION, POLITICSahmaud arbery, blm, eric garner, featured, george floyd, yassin mohamedLeave a Comment

Being Black in America Should Not Be a Death Sentence

Featured Artwork: Nikkolas Smith Eric Garner, Ahmaud Arbery, and now, George Floyd, were all subject to the same fate: their deaths were written by white men. You can deny it but the facts won’t change, these were hate crimes and none of the incidents were accidents. Eric Garner was put in a chokehold by an…

By: Angelica Silva May 14, 2020June 7, 2020 CULTURE, OPINIONfeatured5 Comments

Am I Too Brown, or Not Brown Enough: Why We Have to Drop the Whitewashing Rhetoric

Featured Artwork: Manjit Thapp “So, you’ve really never watched any of the classic Bollywood movies?” asked a brown girl I had just met at a friend’s party. “Not even Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? Or Kal Ho Naa Ho?!” With a sheepish grin, I shook my head at each one. “Uh no, I’ve really only seen…

By: Amir M. W. April 18, 2020June 7, 2020 CULTURE, LIFEfeaturedLeave a Comment

Do You Feel As Good As You Look?

Featured Artwork: Rocco Baviera A Short Story About Fashion and Homelessness It was a few days before my 25th birthday and I decided to have my party early because all my friends were going to be with their families for Thanksgiving. It was an unusually cold November night; in fact, it was November 16th, 2013,…

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Latinx Liminality

By: Briseyda Barrientos-Ariza September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

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Featured Illustration: Manuela Alejandra Guillén This brown skin is all I have ever known and kept close The only place I have ever been that is both home and unknown The one that blushes and bruises And comforts and rouges And bleeds, oh it bleeds This brown skin that starts fires and washes away the…

Uyghur Muslims: Oppression and Forced Labour – A New Trend For The Fashion Industry?

By: Aliza Zia September 17, 2020September 18, 2020

OPINION, RELIGION, WORLD ISSUEScurrent events, muslim, racism, refugee, systematic racism, Uyghurs, writingLeave a Comment

Featured Image: Lutpulla – Anonymous “Kindness is a mark of faith and whoever is not kind has no faith.” – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) . . . The History: Uyghurs are a Muslim minority group in Xinjiang, a northwestern region in China. Xinjiang is the ‘so-called’ home to 10 million Uyghurs. From having their own culture…

A New Mindset for a New School Year

By: Haleema Ahmed September 16, 2020September 17, 2020

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Featured Image: Hub/John Hopkins University Millions of students will be heading back to school in the coming days in ways they may have never done before. Some university students will no longer be commuting from the bus stop to the train station, and others will be atoning masks and social distancing while writing notes during…

On Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Black Femme Perspective on European Art

By: Mimi Tempestt September 15, 2020September 17, 2020

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“Did you know that you can’t kill any of the swans?” Ronny exclaimed. Alexis and I looked at Ronny with confusion, it was a weird fact to proclaim as we made our way through St. James’ Park. The swans, viciously beautiful and unperturbed by the presence of so many people, were the last thing that…

Zain Shah’s Pursuit to ‘Diversify Diversity’

By: Sandy Benny September 14, 2020September 17, 2020

CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT, LGBTQ+#fashioninfluencer, #socialchange, #southasianadvocate, lgbtqLeave a Comment

Featured Image: Zain Shah In South Asian society, the pressure to conform to ‘a standard’ shapes the foundations of brown culture. This narrative enforces an expectation for brown youth to preserve this social conditioning through their own lives at the cost of slowly abandoning their individuality, their voice, and their identity. This unwritten narrative is…

A Sailor Cruising Through Failure

By: Usraat Fahmidah September 13, 2020September 17, 2020

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Featured Illustration: Vero Romero “Thank you for submitting to ‘X’. After careful consideration, it was not chosen for publication. This does not reflect the quality of our work.” “Thank you for applying for our research position, but we cannot offer you a position at the moment.” More often than I would have liked, I had…

Everything Chadwick Boseman Taught Us About Inspiration Porn

By: Shruthi Vasudevan September 12, 2020September 17, 2020

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Featured Image: Mark Seliger/Vanity Fair In the weeks following his passing, I continued to see this flood of messages making the rounds with the same subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) lament, that Chadwick Boseman went so long hiding his cancer from the world, battling in silence without inviting a throng of fans to share…

Instagram Infographics Shouldn’t Be Your Main News Source

By: Irene Schrader September 11, 2020September 17, 2020

CULTURE, OPINIONculture, fake news, infographic, infographics, information, instagram, news, opinion, political, propaganda, Social Media, TwitterLeave a Comment

Featured Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Every day I come across a carousel of Instagram stories on my feed, plastered with neatly designed visuals that aim to explain complex topics in bitesize slides to anyone who may be unfamiliar to them. Infographics, which have traditionally served as tools to accompany and underscore longer sources of information, have…

Combating Rape Culture: The Rape Culture Pyramid

By: Sania Nasir September 10, 2020September 17, 2020

CULTURE, FEMINISM, OPINIONfeminism in pakistan, sexual abuse, sexual assault, toxic masculinity, violence against women, women's rightsLeave a Comment

Featured Illustration: Hanna Barczyk To combat rape culture, we need to first acknowledge the beliefs and attitudes that perpetuate it within our society. We are looking at only the top of the pyramid; whereas, it is being perpetuated by a chain of behaviors and daily practices. It is about time we look at the bottom…