If I dismember the sky, will the rainbow chunks bleed prismatic liquid? Will I become death, destroyer of hallucinated worlds? Of amorphous blobs of color that shapeshift and ooze. Of pink elephants and sea monsters deep above. Psychedelia, teach me dissociation. How to lose oneself in liminal spaces. The whiteness of radio static and eerie […]
At Harvard, nearly two-thirds of students arrive as virgins. Many students experiment sexually for the first time here. As with many universities, women and femme individuals often navigate gendered sexual expectations. I interviewed sex-positive women and femme students to explore their experiences. I had several questions. Are Rice Purity Scores an accurate measurement of sexual […]
Transcendentalism is a techno rave. The pounding tempo and shrieking dubstep, bass reverberating through bejeweled chests. Communion in candy bracelets, exchanged from my wrist to yours. This is divine consciousness. Funhouse mirror bodies collide like billiard balls, the grinding hips of youth. Back cutouts, side cutouts, and midriffs everywhere. There is something spiritual in exotic […]
We are sitting near Quincy Grille. Allure Akaeze ’24 wears a raunchy cheetah-print bodysuit, colored neon pink and blue, with midriff and side cutouts. “I like showing skin, y’all,” they laugh. “It’s sexy. I like it. It makes me feel good about myself.” As a multidisciplinary artist, Allure embodies counterculture and eroticism. They are a […]
At some point in my girlhood, undefined, I drew in a broad breath which I never released. So long I’ve been the lone moon of a solar system forsaken. Acne — pockmarked like a seagull scooped out the pulp of my face, cratered like a sallow gray planet marinating in a toxic atmosphere of discontent. […]
The first ever “BAFTUB” award, a kissing cactus, and a “Murder on the Dancefloor.” These were just some of the many highlights of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ opening night of their 175th production, Heist, Heist, Baby. But before the show began, the group honored their 2024 Man of the Year, Irish actor Barry Keoghan. Keoghan […]
In a black sea of ephemera, we are falling. Two luminescent bodies swim the midnight landscape. Metallic skeletons push through space-time. Our spacecrafts are diametrically opposed, traveling perpendicular. Some divine being from our ancient past extends her grace. A celestial object flashes in the jeweled sky. The veil of eternal night is lifted. For an […]
“For a lot of people, this is their full-time job. This is their career. And to have it leaked that one of the studio executives said,‘We’re going to make them strike until they start losing their housing,’…I think it’s just absolutely mindblowing,” said sophomore actress Kathleen Benson ’26. Benson stars as the lead actress in […]
“I think that there’s something really special about rave, and something that’s made it such a center for queer and black people throughout the last fifty years or so,” said Kaia Berman Peters ’23-24, who goes by Chaia. “It’s the fact that it’s like a space of pure joy. …It’s only positive, only vibing with […]
“I think New York Fashion Week—it’s like the pinnacle of the modeling industry,” said Payton Thompson ’25, in disbelief as she reflected on walking in New York Fashion Week. I understand her awe. When models set their sights on working with internationally-renowned brands, there is often a sense that all promising roads lead to New […]