Disney and Pixar Pretend It’s No Big Deal to be Poor Eric Ferreri Arts & Culture Cinderella went from scrubbing floors in tattered clothes to marrying her prince in a royal wedding. Snow White’s seven dwarfs head off to the mines each day with a spring in their step and a song on...
Go Breast or Go Home: Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding’s Return Jessica Martucci Arts & Culture, Gender Studies How did we come to be in this moment, when breastfeeding is both increasingly mandatory and simultaneously impossible, burdensome and laborious?
The Beauty of Ethereal Social Networks Michele Battle-Fisher Arts & Culture, Sociology A social network is “simply” bound as a set of objects, such as riders of an elevator lift, or even geese that are linked in some meaningful, measurable fashion. A gaggle of geese is a gaggle of geese but...
Wandering Sophia Lanza Arts & Culture I began attending Florida Atlantic University in the summer of 2015; in this summer I discovered many things, one of them being the Boca Raton Museum of Art. One day I was feeling very alone and very small so...
4 Reasons People Can’t Quite Quit Facebook George Lowery Arts & Culture, Psychology If you’ve ever thought about quitting Facebook, you’re not alone. Maybe you’ve even shut down your account, swearing never to return, only to log back in a week later. A newly published study in the...
A Lesson From Mead and Batman in Ethically Dynamic Moral Character Michele Battle-Fisher Arts & Culture Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman, is the epitome of dynamic contradictions of ethos. Not unlike Batman’s character struggles, character is built and questioned constantly, often without a law in sight....
The Fallacy of the “Serious Writer” Allie Marini Arts & Culture Reading fees are straight up classist bullshit. And this idea that they weed out writers who are not serious enough is heartbreaking bullshit. All of the things that are marks of a “serious writer” are,...
