Issue Three Changes an Artist Goes through Ileana Reed uses art to heal as an essential part of her growth.
Issue Three In and out from the Shadow Delta N. A. encapsulates the theme of metamorphosis through dream-like depictions of figures and landscapes.
Issue Three Broadway’s Back and More Emotional Than Ever Lindsay Armstrong's review of Beetlejuice tackles the changes Broadway has undergone after being shut down for over a year.
Issue Three What Is Dating? Samantha Nelson considers the pressures of modern dating, and (reluctantly) accepts that meeting someone organically is much harder than you think.
Issue Three I’m Just a Broadway Baby: How to Become a Theater Fan From Home Elisa Kluger offers a self-help guide on how to become Broadway's number one fan (on a budget, of course)!
Issue Three The Professor We decided on our story beforehand. We decided that she, in suspenders and a tweed suit, would be The Professor and that I, in that short white dress with the denim all frayed underneath, would be the student she was sleeping with.
Issue Three The Age of Reboots: Transformation of Original Media Rayiah Ross's take on how even though society hates reboots you cannot help but chase that nostalgia you felt with the original.
Issue Three On Finishing My Third Year of Teaching: a Lyric Essay Dear Students, I’m writing this poem or letter or essay or whatever this ends up being because you mean a lot to me and I don’t know how else to express this without wasting your class time and/or money.
Issue Three Too Well The music faded away. The screen lights dimmed. The credits started to roll. I hovered my fingers over the touchpad for a split second of indecision and then pressed replay. I was watching a much anticipated short film expanding the breadth of my universe through a song by my favorite artist.
Issue Three My Old Lover I used to have a notebook that held all of my creations. These creations were words that lingered on a white page. Somehow, these words that sat alongside each other built some of the pieces that I absolutely adored. I think of poetry as my first steps into the writing world.
Issue Three What Becoming a Lesbian Taught Me about Being Straight One of the first friends I came out to was a woman a lot like me. We’d both been raised Catholic and were white women of a certain class and liberal sensibility. Balancing mothering and working. Critical of and still participating in the patriarchy.
Issue Three In the Middle of Somewhere and Nowhere I find myself reassessing life each year. My ups and downs, my milestones, and my goals. I tend to think of my life in seasons. Not months or years or even weeks or days.
Issue Three Underaged Alcoholism It’s not easy to realize you’re an alcoholic before you’ve even reached the legal drinking age. But getting clean becomes a whole lot easier when you’re f*cked up enough to cope using humor. I mean, imagine recovering from substance abuse and not even being able to make jokes at your own expense.
Issue Two Musical Sensation Bad Bunny Breaks Boundaries Ariana Contreras reviews how artist Bad Bunny has revived reggaeton music and redefined masculine themes found within the reggaeton genre.
Issue Two Racial Justice and Affordability in Higher Education: Lessons from the NYS Excelsior Program Rebecca Craig does a deep dive into how we can reimagine, repair, and revitalize public education in the United States, specifically focusing on the NYS Excelsior Program - a tuition-free scholarship for SUNY and CUNY that has rolled out with glaring racial inequities.
Issue Two Get Lost in The 2020’s Era Taylor Swift (Like A Priceless Wine): A Folklore and Evermore Compilation Review Shelby Hall reviews Taylor Swift’s most recent work and discusses the power of re-invention.
Issue Two Queer and Criminal: The Resurgence of Noir in Queer Media Anne-Tetchly Charles redefines film noir for the 21st century, arguing Hannibal and Killing Eve need to fall in the canon.
Issue Two Reexamining the Tragic Short Life of ABC’s The Muppets Heather Beattie reexamines our relationship with the children's classic The Muppets.
Issue Two Prison Reform is Not Enough. It’s Time to Rescind the Industrial Complex. Jazzelle Bustos reignites the debate on prison reform with a discussion of Angela Davis's book, “Are Prisons Obsolete?”
Issue Two Second Chances in Netflix's New Crime Drama, The One Lola Lemarquis re-evaluates love and second chances with Netflix’s new crime drama, The One.
Issue Two Humans and Animals as Observed in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Pand Milo reshapes the way we think about C.S. Lewis' classic children's story, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Issue Two All Mixed Up Viviana Metzgar reimagines what it means to be multi-racial in 2021 and explores her Mexican heritage and culture in this multimedia piece.
Issue Two Dates Across States: Reinventing Relationships Sydney Teter explores the reinvention of dating in quarantine, and considers the positive benefits of spending hours on social media.
Issue Two Look What They Made Taylor Swift Do Hannah Corbett takes us through what to expect as Taylor Swift re-records her first five albums.
Issue Two The Stranger: Reconciling with Losing Myself to Depression, and Finding Myself again, and Everything in Between Meg Masseron reconciles with her old self and The Stranger that took over her life and finds a new path forward.