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From the Editors
Have you ever picked the peanut pieces out of chunky peanut butter with chopsticks? Meticulously, delicately, carefully, assuredly. The obsession with this act often begins with a knife, then a fork, until, ever wiser in the art of peanut-picking, you find the perfect tool to sift, flip, and prod: the chopstick. Or to be specific, two. An inexplicable pleasure is derived from a clumpy pile of five or six peanut pieces on the sticks. There is something about the act of diving those stiff pointy stick ends into a large beckoning tub of soft butter, churning it in swirls, flipping and folding and pressing clumps into each other as I search underneath, prowling around for the area of highest chunk to cream ratio.
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Vol. 39 Issue 9, Nov 22 2019
Save the BCSC
Alumni Stand in Support of Student Activism
We, the undersigned alumni of Brown University, write to express serious concern with the troubling atmosphere and recent heartbreaking student experiences …
There's No Place Like the Future
Dorothy’s ruby slippers and queer utopia
Every New Year’s Eve in Key West, the drag queen Sushi perches comfortably inside a glistening ruby high heel, so giant …
What Brown Could Pay
Brown’s property tax exemption and the crisis of public school funding
“How is it that a city—a small city—can continue to have public schools that fail repeatedly?” In an interview with the …
Current Location
Mapping in perspective
One cloudy Friday evening in October, I’m on a bus from Providence to New York, looking out as the endless gray …
Week in Climate Apocalypse
ANT-EAT-ANT WORLD The scene is set: a Soviet nuclear bunker. The land is desolate. A few radioactive tumbleweeds are the only …
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Two Stories
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In the Making
Examining the legacies of the Gorham Manufacturing Company
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