Focus
What Do Kylie Jenner and Belle Delphine Have in Common?
White mimesis of ethnic features and cultural appropriation reifies the hyper–sexualization of women of color.
The State of the Arts at Penn: Why Do We Value STEM and Wharton More?
Debunking the myth that studying business is more practical than art history.
The Fight Against Sexist Algorithms
Can we code our way towards equality?
Why are we so obsessed with celebrities' bodies?
Billie Eilish's body shouldn't matter. Neither should Lizzo's, Kanye's, or anyone's, really.
Examining the ‘Skinny or Fashionable’ Trend
Social media users are calling out thin privilege online.
Indigenous Communities Have Been Disproportionately Affected by COVID–19
How America is dangerously repeating its dark history of neglect and ignorance.
Dear Penn: Your “Messages” to the Penn Community Aren’t Enough
Penn once again gives their condolences, but fails to address their role in the problem.
Behind the Hidden Politics of the Nobel Prize
Unpacking Louise Glück's recent honor and the uncertain future of a literary Nobel.
Our Bodies are just Bodies
By celebrating what our bodies do over what they look like, body neutrality presents a cure to our image–obsessed culture.
Presidential Debates Have Lost Their Worth
Why these events must detach from their current state of pure entertainment.
The Politics of 'Papers, Please': Border Control and Biological Essentialism
Lucas Pope’s 2013 release is an empathy game with the typical messy moralities of video games.
The Gentrification of Fashion: Re–Selling on Depop
Price–gouging and fast–fashion shaming render sustainability exclusive.
Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia—But You Still Need to Vote.
Despite Trump's claims of corrupt mail–in ballots, you should vote.
Our Altered Relationship with Time
What happens when pandemic time meets the Penn semester calendar?
Penn Debate Society Evaluates the First Presidential Debate
Both candidates have strong ties to Penn, but would they have made the debate team?
Hello Kitty ACAB: The Aestheticization of Politics
"Woke" memes aren't the flex you think they are.
An Open Letter to 'Saturday Night Live': Don't Joke About the Debate
Because it's just not funny anymore.
Asian Arts Initiative Raises Money for USPS with Pen Pals Project
As USPS faces pressure to perform amid financial constraints, this project merges art activism with the need for communication to buoy the social service.
An Ode to The Crazy Woman
The reduction of a woman's identity to a merely dismissive adjective is a trope as old as time.
