New year. New classes. New study spots. Whether you’re a first-year searching for a quiet corner on campus to make your own, or a super-senior looking to shake things up, explore the most iconic, forgotten, and depressing places to work on campus. MOST SOCIAL: Cabot second floor No other study spot treads the line between […]
On May 1st, Wiley Schubert Reed ’21-22, who performs as Wiley Beckett, stepped on stage at the Middle East Restaurant and Club in Cambridge to play his final show as a Harvard undergrad. His friends, who have been loyal supporters over the past five years, clustered in front of the speakers. His parents stood behind […]
Americans have an obsession with people who scam and falsify their identity, one of the most successful examples being Anna Sorokin, or her alias, Anna Delvey. The Russian-born 31-year-old deceived New York’s elite from 2013 to 2017 and swindled $275,000 from renowned financial institutions. Journalist Jessica Pressler revealed how Sorokin exploited Manhattan in her bombshell […]
Harvard Ballet Company’s spring production On Exhibition created a moving, breathing art museum this past weekend on the Loeb mainstage. Dancers embodied works of visual art, dissolving barriers between static and mobile spheres of art. On Exhibition opened with ‘self portrayal,’ a number choreographed by producer Amy Benedetto ’23. Dancers ran on stage holding pictures […]
Over half of respondents to the Independent’s sex survey said they masturbate one to four times a week. 20% masturbate every few weeks, and 14% masturbate five to nine times a week. But how can you sexually treat yourself while living with a roommate? Part 1: How to Masturbate in Your Double Now, how can […]
On my quest to find self-love, I found that painting myself nude rid me of my body dysmorphia. I could not deny that there was beauty in the art, just far enough removed from my physical body that I could not distort it. Painting nude portraits of my friends who also struggled with these issues […]
“It’s like bread and butter, like ham and eggs,” says David Ritz, ghost-writer of Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.” He isn’t talking about breakfast foods. He’s talking about music and sex. Making music is an act of bringing people together, just like having sex, Ritz claims. “Yearning for union is what I think underlies the sexiest […]
Last Valentine’s Day, I started to read All About Love by Gloria Jean Watkins better known as ‘bell hooks’. My first response was to write the Indy article Loving Yourself When No One Else is Around and advocate for “remembering love in a time of social isolation, self-care, and wellness days.”I didn’t realise that this […]
The Harvard Art Museums—comprising the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museums—are one of Harvard University’s great prides, housed under the same glorious glass pyramidal roof at 32 Quincy Street. After a two year hiatus, the Harvard Art Museums are back in business. In their second exhibit since reopening, the museums featured Prints from the Brandywine Workshop […]
“If you can’t love yourself how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?” This quote is repeated at the end of most episodes of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, a show responsible for making drag mainstream. The show starts with a dozen queens strutting on a runway, and they then compete against each other […]