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.
Issue Two Attitudes Towards Deafness: American Sign Language v. Oral School Melanie Grasso reinforces the importance of acknowledging Deafness as its own culture, utilizing sign language to create community especially for young learners.
Issue Two What Am I Searching for by Watching Reality TV About Ghosts? Mary Durocher reviews her fascination with ghosts and how it relates to and helps temper the terror of the pandemic.
Issue Two The Sopranos, Reemerging Gwendolyn Attridge re-discovers a highly acclaimed early 2000s mob drama, The Sopranos, and finds that despite throwbacks the show resonates with a Gen Z audience.
Issue Two Killing Our Parents and the Greeks: Analyzing the Literary Transition from Greek Epics to Camus’ Absurd Man Abbie Steuhm asks how we will be able to re-orient ourselves post-pandemic and discusses how Albert Camus' Absurd Man can give us ideas on how to deal with - and write about - tragedy.
Issue Two Can the Netflix Original Teen Rom-Com Be Redeemed? Azura Ramsay urges Netflix to re-imagine young romance for the 21st century - throw away those tropes like director Alice Wu did in The Half of It.
Nonfiction Congrats You Are A Billionaire, What Are You Doing to Change the World? Tatiana Serafin asks Kanye West and fellow billionaires to care more about being change-makers and less about the size of their wallet.
Nonfiction The FX Network as Our New History Teacher Stephen Hladik asks who gets to tell history and engrain our collective memory?
Nonfiction Frankenstein Family Values Alex Fiorella finds out that “The scariest thing is actually humanity.”
Nonfiction The Value of Prison Education: A View from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Bedford Hills college student Brittney Austin explains her life changing educational journey and why we need to support college-in-prison programs.
Nonfiction From Butcher Knives to Parasites Abbie Steuhm traces humanity’s fears through the horror film genre (or what we may feel we are living now).
Nonfiction Harry Styles Revolutionizes Masculinity Mary Durocher writes that fashion isn’t a fixated, binary form of self-expression and Harry Styles shows us that all the time.
Nonfiction One Girl's Voice on Her Autistic Life Amanda "Pand" Milo takes a personal journey to discuss what more we can do to accept those with autism.
Nonfiction The Not So Revolutionary History of Terrorism (Maybe It's Time To Try Another Tactic) Anne Bailey takes a look at terrorism with the view that the Crusades were part of a Catholic history of violence and intimidation.
Nonfiction Performing Domesticity, Subverting Stereotypes Claire Hubble writes about the relationship between art and theatre in the early 19th century and calls for a revolution in how we learn about these art forms.