Galatea

By Ruby Barron on May 15, 2024

He often tells her the tale of her making. He whispers it against the ears he sews to her head. He hums it while he smooths skin across bones, draws thread through flesh, cradles organs before setting them in place.

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The Space of Sound

By Mary King on May 14, 2024

The relocatability of sound is a quality with enormous promise.

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Garbage Anxiety: Intimacy and Interconnection at the Landfill

By Vasi Bjeletich on May 13, 2024

Our trash cans are filled with mementos of our daily experiences. What happens to this intricate personal archive once it is picked up and taken away? How much of it will lie forever amidst the irredeemable refuse of the modern ...

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of and about (FTM 10 Years Later)

By August Ackley on May 12, 2024

of and about (FTM 10 Years Later) is an homage to the hidden corners of the late 2000s & early 2010s female-to-male transgender YouTube community that supported me and countless others during the early days of our transitions.

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Memorandum

By Louie Pardo on May 11, 2024

I try to move, but the camera has slowed, freezing me in place.

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Bad Faith in Bad Film

By Chloe Bouquet Brown on May 10, 2024

Within the palazzo and Nazi Germany, we can revisit such works to ask: How did this woman not see the atrocities around her? Why did she not speak up, or act differently?

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Interrogation, Exhaustion, Operation

By Zoe Scourtes on May 9, 2024

My limbs may move with the flow and my mind may move along the scenery, but I often wonder how my whole body operates.

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Imagining Tropical Chic

By Melanie Bowers on May 8, 2024

Tropical Chic is a pioneering force rooted in possibility, constantly evolving.

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The Influence of Music and Lyricism

By Alani Hajithomas on May 7, 2024

Though persuasive, we can choose where art transports us and what we feel in response.

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Attuning to the Harmony and Dissonance of T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes”

By Sean Knox Krupa on May 6, 2024

“Preludes” speaks of an experience of collective time in the modern city as it fractures, interrupts, and repeats itself, eliciting a groundhog-day-esque feeling of recurring stasis and disillusionment.

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Cube of The Arts

By Mary King, Skyler Rivas, and Jennifer Mendez on May 3, 2024

The manifestation of our ideas on the physical plane need not be perfect, and it is quite a beautiful thing when we can liberate ourselves from these expectations.

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From Melting Pot to Symphony

By Alia Attar on May 1, 2024

As we abandon the melting pot theory, we can also abandon the standards of assimilation toward which many immigrants and people of color feel pressured to conform.

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