Lin Manuel Miranda Sings Trump’s Long Sentence
Original, creative, and imaginative, Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical rendition of Trump’s run-on sentence is, to me, a fantastic example of...
Black Bodies, White Cubes
Taylor Renee Aldridge’s article in Art News, “Black Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem with Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race,”...
BLACK BODIES WHITE CUBES
My first response to the article written by Aldridge was congruent with her opinion and take on the installation. I felt disgusted by the...
Concentration, Visual Messages
John Berger said “Seeing comes before words” and I have a feeling that someone like Nietzsche would agree with him. It is intrinsic to...
'Kitchen' Inspired Visual Essay
Process Notes for “Kitchen” inspired visual essay I was never overly fond of recording processes. However, with the Kitchen inspired poem...
Island of Truth
Ilha Das Flores by Jorge Furtado is an experimental short film that uses non – fiction literature, music, and visual images to...
Comedic Weight
Saturday Night Live is an American comedy television show that has translated current events into sketch comedy skits ever since October...
Trevor Noah's Tame Interview
The beginnings of Trevor Noah's stewardship of The Daily Show were worrying. He seemed to ditch the constant intellectual rigor and...
The Last Day of the First Part of My Life
When we are not immediately involved historical events but were alive to bear witness to them, we often think of them in the context of...
Good Touches and Bad Touches: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
In elementary school, once a year, an older woman in plain clothes would come to our school library, and she, the principal, and a...