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(10/21/20 9:26pm)
“I don’t think I would have been smoking weed to feel better if I hadn’t been just sitting at home all day not doing anything.” Emma* (C’23) says. As we come upon our eighth mind–numbing month of social distancing, her sentiments are especially relatable.
(10/21/20 9:22pm)
Farah Sayed (C’23) cherishes both visual arts and creative writing, practicing everything from poetry to printmaking. She always planned on joining a Penn publication, but found that none bridged the divide between artists and writers in the ways that she imagined. Sayed knew she wanted to start a publication that united these two worlds at the beginning of her second year.
(10/21/20 11:04pm)
The entire premise of Lucas Pope's video game Papers, Please is simple, if somewhat bizarre: a border officer, selected through a job lottery in a fictional communist country called Arstotzka, shuffles through entrants’ paperwork to determine whether or not they can pass.a
(10/20/20 1:11am)
Professor Orkan Telhan’s Design 21 class is much more than a requirement for undergraduate design majors. By taking an inquiry and research based approach to different kinds of design, the course “[discusses] how design shapes society, how new generation designers can learn about new technologies’ relationship to design, and how they can address these bigger challenges based on their own interests, whether that is becoming a designer or using design skills in their own majors,” says Professor Telhan.
(10/14/20 11:11pm)
Maritza Moulite is a first generation Haitian–American author and first–year Penn student pursuing a doctorate in education, with a concentration in reading, writing, and literacy. When discussing her upcoming novel, Moulite speaks of her recent love of American scholar Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana academic whose work focused on Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She particularly admires how Anzaldúa’s academic work offered something for everyone but was unafraid to speak directly to her Chicana audience. Moulite’s work aims to convey her stories in the way that Anzaldúa does, opening a portal into her emotions.
(10/14/20 11:07pm)
The first time they read non–rhyming poetry, “it felt like it belonged to me,” says Erin O’Malley (C’21). As a self–taught poet, much of their inspiration comes from other Asian–American writers like Ocean Vuong or K–Ming Chang who use poetry as a means of expressing cultural narratives. As an Asian–American adoptee, Erin’s personal connection to Asian culture differs from the Asian writers they seek inspiration from. Because of this, they sought other themes to authentically center their creativity.
(10/17/20 6:56pm)
From light hearted novels that serve as comic relief to stories that weigh in on the messiness of real life, literature captures the complexity of human experience, helping us as readers to appreciate what makes us different and to reflect on where we come from. Thus, representation in written works is something that should be both cherished and advocated for, as books provide arguably the richest material for personal reflection.
(10/12/20 12:21am)
Every sports story is, at its core, a love story, and 17776 is a love story of the grandest scope.
(10/12/20 1:21am)
Find joy.
(10/09/20 10:09pm)
The Hello Kitty ACAB and the Hatsune Miku says “All Cops are Bastards!” memes are a new internet cultural symbol present in Twitter profile pics, Instagram feeds, and TikTok audios. Although Hello Kitty ACAB is supposedly a radical critique of the prison industrial complex, these images are instead indicative of the sanitization of violence, performative activism, and the commodification and commercialization of the radical aesthetic. Essentially, “woke” memes and pretty infographics are antithetical to their very purpose.
(10/06/20 1:11am)
Jean–Honoré Fragonard’s “The Swing” is a vision straight out of a dream. A woman, almost subsumed by her billowing gown, playfully swings in and out of a lush, enchanted garden as a man cheekily watches her from below. Her shoe flies through the air as a symbol of the carefree, facetious lifestyle she lives as a member of the 18th–century French bourgeoisie. Her haute life is characterized by opulence and excess, and her coquettish giggles are almost audible through the canvas. Yet, while real women like Fragonard’s fictionalized subject enjoyed nonchalant and playful afternoons, outside of their frivolous bubble the world was not such a dream–like place.
(09/29/20 9:20pm)
Like many other employees across the nation, staff members at Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) shifted their work online in the wake of coronavirus. Usual in–person activities were readily replaced with Zoom meetings, breakout sessions, and quick email threads. To recreate a sense of connection, Cat Ramirez launched the AAI Pen Pals Project in April, giving staff members the opportunity to send handwritten postcards to each other. In September, the AAI Pen Pals Project was re–launched and redirected for an additional cause: raising funds for the struggling USPS.
(09/23/20 9:00pm)
It is a universally acknowledged truth that an artist in possession of great talent must be in want of an ideal subject.
(09/16/20 1:24am)
Adrian Evans IV (GSE ‘21) starts all of his work on a paint–splattered tarp on the floor of his apartment. As a self–taught artist, he’s been creating abstract paintings since his sophomore year of college. His Pollock–esque pieces can be found on his instagram, @creacetion and his online portfolio. Now, as a student in the Graduate School of Education, he’s bridging the meanings of oral storytelling, teaching, and the process of creation.
(09/07/20 12:25am)
Cynthia Zhou (C’23) first began exploring design through anime fan–art forums in middle school, and since then, her love for creating art has blossomed into a diverse and impressive portfolio. Her work has not gone unnoticed—she is a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Finalist and was recognized at the White House as a 2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She has also been featured in exhibits in the Kennedy Center in DC, as well as New York City, San Francisco, and Miami. Although Cynthia’s portfolio spans from paintings to logo graphics, her art consistently uses color to represent how we interact with our memories. Now she’s turning her passion for introspection professional, using her knack for emotive color theory to design for grassroots movements. For Cynthia, her talent serves a deliberate purpose: to promote equality.
(09/10/20 11:12pm)
In 1963, author James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time, which helped set the scene for the upcoming turmoil in American race relations.
(08/13/20 7:09pm)
First gracing our cinemas almost 15 years ago, the Devil Wears Prada remains, in my opinion, a necessary element of anybody’s film diet. Starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, the film delves into the world of fashion publication – focusing on the relationship between a fashion magazine’s editrix and her assistant. The film’s primary ‘antagonist’ – though there is a real case to be made for Hathaway’s on-screen boyfriend fulfilling this role – is Miranda Priestly, the aforementioned editrix of a renowned fashion magazine, played by Streep. Most of the stellar moments in the film are easily attributable to Miranda Priestly (and Streep’s performance), one of the most iconic instances being her soliloquy lecturing Andrea Sachs (played by Hathaway) on the exact difference between turquoise and cerulean. In it, Priestly delves into a brief history of the color cerulean – the genesis of its popularity, the proliferation of cerulean within high fashion, and its eventual appearance in mass production of the clothes Sachs herself wears.
(07/30/20 7:45pm)
I attended my first ballet class at the tender age of eight. Set in a dimly lit room in some corner of my primary school, our "studio" did not boast ballet barres nor mirrors. Rather, it relied purely on the motivation of a singular instructor determined to teach a dozen children an elite art form revered for its innate sense of perfectionism.
(07/13/20 7:13pm)
“The most important part of writing, and really life, you said, is revision.”
(07/03/20 6:31pm)
Just as banana bread, Chloe Ting workouts, and whipped coffee have become quintessential staples of Quarantine, so have drastic alterations to one’s appearance, especially by ways of their hair. Of these varying hair dye trends, the infamous "e-girl hair" has become ubiquitous— consisting of bleaching or coloring the front two strands of hair.