Madi Kang

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Clavicular, Looksmaxxing, and the Price of Online Influence

Madi Kang 10.22.26: International Issue, News

Braden Peters, better known as the social media influencer Clavicular, has built an online persona around pursuing physical attractiveness. Now, criminal charges in Massachusetts, which allege he raped a 17-year-old, have brought a different kind of attention to the 20-year-old streamer. Harvard researchers and students describe him as a symptom of a culture that sells […]

Baba Yaga’s Wandering Professor

Madi Kang 09.24.26: When September Ends, Forum

Baba Yaga is hard to categorize. Depending on whom you ask, she is a Slavic witch, a folkloric ogress, a wise and helpful woman, or a combination of all three. She travels through the forest on a flying mortar, carries a pestle as a weapon, and—most famously—lives in a wandering wooden house balanced on two […]