We Love Them, We Hate Them: The Era of The Influencer
On March 18, Kylie Jenner shared an Instagram post with her 222 million followers, urging readers to donate to a ...
Opinion
Well, I Got It! A Vaccination Reflection
It was the second week of April, and for the first time this year, I could feel spring in the ...
Taking “The Office” Off of Netflix Doesn’t Absolve its Troubling Content
Trigger Warnings: Racism, Sexual Assault, Colonialism NBC’s “The Office” is a cultural icon. The television show debuted many iconic actors—Steve Carell, ...
No Matter How You Frame It, Your Vaccine Selfie Might Make Someone Uncomfortable
Over the course of April, my social media feed has slowly but surely become filled with three types of photos: ...
At Wesleyan and Beyond, Suburbs Produce Harmful Ideologies of Space
A model home is set against the side of the hill. Surrounding it, there is a perfect patch of sod ...
The Time for Ambitious Climate Policy is Now, Senator Hickenlooper ‘74
In 2019, during his campaign for president, University alumnus John Hickenlooper ’74, MA ’80, addressed the California Democratic Party’s convention. Hickenlooper used his ...
Living Through COVID-19: One Year Later
Somehow, I’ve ended up in the exact same place, the exact same spot even, that I was this time last ...
Calm, Campus, and Coffee: Finding Inner Peace at Wesleyan’s Cafes
I arrived on campus for the start of this academic year as a walking contradiction: When I first walked into ...
Zooming into the Future: Why Zoom Will Be a Useful Tool Post-Pandemic
Over a year ago, “Zoom” was nothing more than a 1970s kids’ show or a word we’d occasionally use to ...
Anti-Asian Racism is Not New—Stop Pretending Like It Is
I laughed when I saw Joe Biden’s speech on CNN, when he addressed the recent rise of anti-Asian hate crimes within the ...