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Notre Dame and Public Grieving
The recent fire at Notre Dame had me questioning how we use social media to recognize tragedy in digital times. Is it used more as a self-serving platform or to draw much needed attention to causes? April 15 marked a monumental loss, as Notre Dame caught fire, and the world watched in shocked awe as…
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Accepting Identities Costs You Nothing
In honor of last week’s Transgender Day of Visibility, I’ve dedicated this post to championing transgender awareness and exploring the many different identities people peacefully go by.
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A Case of Art vs. Exploitation
Exploring the exploitation of Sharon Tate’s death by the media as the 50h anniversary of the “Tate murders” approaches. Where is the line drawn between life and art?
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Notes on a (College Cheating) Scandal
Exploring the recent college admissions scandal in which wealthy parents bribed school officials to get their offspring admitted to prestigious American universities.
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Understanding Waves of Feminism
Last week we observed International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of womanhood and women’s rights. March 8 marks the date that women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia back in 1917, starting a national holiday that the United Nations adopted in 1975. The 2019 celebration embraced the motto “balance for better” in support of continuing progress…
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Siding with Snowflake Society
Everyone’s always whining about how tedious “snowflake” society is. Let’s stop and consider the positive implications of living in such a culture.
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The Commodification of Flesh
In this post I explore some of the different ways that flesh is used as a currency and the situations in which this is deemed both acceptable and taboo in modern society. Two weeks ago, I temporarily flared in fury when I incorrectly believed a friend of mine was accusing me of having used my…
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Is Human Intimacy Dead?
Extended title: Rise of Sex Robots: Is Human Intimacy Dead? In this article I explore how technological advances can render the need for human intimacy obsolete, though they also might be useful for dealing with sexual perversions. Technology has made some pretty tremendous, yet terrifying, leaps. AI is in the process of providing an alternative…
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for you (free verse)
– for you – Embrace me, and I’m in rapture, singing halleluiah, halleluiah even though I forgot the words a long time ago. In fact, I might have never known the words in the first place, but the melody is sweet, and it’s easy to sing along with words that tumble out of my head and form…
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Making a Modern Messiah (Cult Figures & Power)
Here I explore how cult figures rise to power before drawing a parallel between notorious cult leaders and modern social media influencers.