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CULTURE

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CULTURE
A Push(cart) to the Right Direction
Featured Image: Anjo Lapresca The school bus I rode to get home when I still had onsite classes was nearly a decade…
ALLY DE LEON
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told, They Do What’s Necessary
Featured Illustration: Jayesh Sivan There is no doubt that Robin Williams as Mr. Keating in the movie Dead Poets Society taught aspiring…
SANIA NASIR
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
On Pageants and Dethroning Misogyny: Why Filipina Queens Are Phenomenal
Featured Image: Miss Universe Philippines Organization Through the years, the Philippines has shown the universe its beauty, talent, and intellect. We are…
JERICHO ZAFRA
CULTURE
Body Positivity: Developing True Self-Esteem
Featured Illustrations: Rocío Montoya Body image refers to the way people look at themselves and others. It is correlated to the way…
SANJANA KARTHIK
CULTURE, LIFE
What We Lost in the Fire
Cape Town burned for three days this April in one of the worst fires that I can remember. I woke to the…
NADIA KAMIES
CULTURE
The Controversial Blackness (or lack thereof) of Ancient Egypt
Featured Image: Nick Brundle/Getty Images My first historical love was the history of Ancient Egypt. One of my fondest memories was my…
AMIR M. W.
CULTURE
A Scene from “Brief Encounter”
Featured Artwork: ‘Brief Encounter’ by Stephen Pannell In David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter, a middle-aged housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets…
INA PAN
CULTURE, POLITICS
A History of Silence
Featured Image: Corbis/Getty Images As a young child growing up in Cape Town, I knew that the minstrel carnival my parents took…
NADIA KAMIES
CULTURE, POLITICS
Asian Women Are Not Your Punchline
Featured Illustration: Phung Banh When I was eight, I visited my relatives in China for the first time in five years. I’d…
INA PAN
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Hasnain Ali: Producing Opportunities
Featured Image: Yekaterina Gyadu Hasnain Ali is a Pakistani-American Muslim actor and producer from Queens, New York. He has been in short…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
An Artist’s Reframing of the Past
On first viewing, Jody Paulsen’s textile collages displayed against the bright yellow walls of the SMAC Gallery in Cape Town appear to…
NADIA KAMIES
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Side Effects
Featured Image: Hanifa Abdul Hameed Over the sewing machine Among the steady hum  Of the needle gliding into the fabric I hear …
KULSUMK

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