When you actively profit from Black trends and Black ideas, solidarity isn’t enough.
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YANG | Lights Up
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The show must go on, and it’s time for me to overcome my stage fright, to become the person I need to be.
Arts & Entertainment
YANG | The Fuzzy Relationship Between Cyberpunk and American Exceptionalism
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As we move forward, we have to maintain the critical lens to reconceptualize race and ethnicity after technology.
Arts & Entertainment
YANDAVA | The Music-Makers
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Although music and art don’t have magical healing powers (I’m the sort of person who tends to frown upon the sometimes simplistic view of art as therapy), I have often found that they unblock emotions that the grind of daily life forces me to suppress out of the necessity to function in the world.
Arts & Entertainment
GUEST ROOM | Hopes for ‘SNL at Home’ Round Two
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“And live from Zoom, it’s somewhere between March and August!”
Arts & Entertainment
QUE | Acknowledgements
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Cinema has been my escape for as long as I can remember, and I want to recreate that space in some way, for myself and hopefully for others. Perhaps that’s another reason why I linger after the movies: I never feel ready to leave.
Arts & Entertainment
BONO | Partying on Club Penguin is Cool Again
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MMOs provide a middle ground where people can still get dressed, emote and travel with people they know without too much stress.
Arts & Entertainment
YANG | Before We Ponder Upon What Is Normal for Life After COVID-19, Watch ‘Sense8’
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At the core of Sense8 is the audacious faith in human kindness.
Arts & Entertainment
QUE | How to Establish An ‘Artist’ Persona Online
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I’ve been taught to not post too much, to only release stills of my work when they’re completed and to never post photos of myself or friends if they are not aesthetically pleasing or professional enough.
Arts & Entertainment
BONO | ‘Cooking Mama’ and a Bitcoin Conspiracy Theory
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I half-expected someone to say that in their copy of the game, Cooking Mama’s eyes turned black and she started speaking backwards.
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SIMS | Shortness of Breath
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There is a real human experience in coming upon something and becoming so excited or inspired or impressed by it that, momentarily, the aesthetic experience supersedes breathing.