Last Sunday, April 3, the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place in Las Vegas. Hosted by the Recording Academy, the Grammys are heralded as the most prestigious music awards event in the country. But, especially in recent years, viewership is declining and critics say the awards show is becoming ...
Beginning next fall, the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan: Race, Gender and Inequality course designation will be replaced with a more specific and explicit curriculum program called Race, Power and Privilege. Courses with ...
From Sylvia Plath to Lana Del Rey, many women artists have embraced a keen sort of sadness that feels both delicately feminine and inseparable from their womanhood. It is not the kind of sadness that can be gone and forgotten after a few good cries. It is all-encompassing: an illogical, inexplicable ...
Clothing has always been a form of gender expression. For queer people, fashion can serve as resistance against the gender binary and a performance that works to destabilize heteropatriarchal norms. Entertainers, as performers by nature, have often stood at the forefront of the mainstream movement ...
Amid contentious disagreements among policymakers, teachers, parents and students about critical race theory in public K-12 schools, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed
The fantastical stories we all hear about as kids 鈥� Greek myths, fairy tales and Disney princesses 鈥� often recycle overdone gendered tropes featuring a male hero, an evil ...
Asian Americans are racialized in confusing and contradictory ways. Existing somewhere between oppression and privilege, we are often viewed as being closer to whiteness than other racial minority groups. Concepts like the model minority myth have contributed to this unique racialization, one that ...
Experiencing girlhood and queerness surrounded by the ubiquity of social media is at once confusing and liberating. At points, the whirlwind of information and videos and posts and strangers that social media presents is overwhelming 鈥� like a bunch of voices shouting at you all at once, telling ...
Policing at Brown is omnipresent, what with police cars stationed at every street corner and sirens wailing on Thayer Street every Friday night. The Department of Public Safety鈥檚 website even makes it clear: 鈥淲e are a full-service public safety department,鈥� ...
Taylor Swift is a cultural phenomenon. It鈥檚 almost unfathomable in our ever-changing cultural landscape that a teenage girl who rose to stardom in the early 2000s would still be relevant as ever 15 years later. My adolescence was defined by her music, and my adulthood continues to be shaped by ...
