The Archive
Playing in many forms
Tag, the club, and fake personas
On a recent February day, I checked the weather and saw that it was going to be unseasonably warm. In celebration, …
Private Eyes
Cambridge Analytica and the new frontier of internet privacy
This past month, Cambridge Analytica has made its way into our consciousness and, for those of us unfortunate enough to be …
The Human Gaze
Photography, objectivity, and the National Geographic Twins
This April, National Geographic published an issue dedicated entirely to the subject of race. On the cover was a photograph of …
Three Poems
into its own fixless dew-thighed-today i set out to find my missing vowels with me i have only the things you …
The New School
Expressionistic recollections of a night in virtual reality
The worst part about virtual reality is how flagrantly interesting it is. You bring it up and everyone within earshot turns …
Social Fabrics
Connecting and crafting online
One long string of yarn, when arranged correctly, can become any number of shapes a person could want to wear on …
Missing the Mark
The reality of the gun control debate in Rhode Island
On April 10, hundreds of people packed the galleries of the RI State House. As the House Judiciary Committee voted to …
Means to a Beginning
The stakes of academic freedom in the context of the Palestine/Israel conflict
On Thursday, March 8, the Brown Middle East Studies department hosted a panel discussion titled “Permission to Speak: Boycott and Politics …
Week in Unrequited Love
Say No to Marriage According to relationship guru magazine, Cosmopolitan, one in four women will turn down a marriage proposal in …
Strangers Among Us
Story for a dweller, a stranger, and a daughter
Land’s end. But there’s water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue. The end of the world. This is not …
Home-Field Disadvantage
The PawSox take a swing at the State House
Three years after plans for the construction of a new Minor League Baseball stadium in Providence fell through, the State House …
Soft Power
Petra Collins and the problem with the female gaze
Two women press their cheeks together, with dark hair falling in their faces and lips parted to reveal the radiant white …
The Shame of the Cities
Renderings, reality TV, and obsessive urbanism
There’s an image of the proposed Providence streetcar that keeps me up at night. It depicts the corner of Empire and …
The Women Who Remember
On matriarchs and memory
content warning: sexual violence Someday your memory will leave the inside of my eyelids and I promise you will not exist …
Priced Out
DARE's fight for rent stabilization
Federal Hill couple Butch and Madonna Trottier, aged 78 and 76 years old respectively, spent three months of the past year …
Behind the Braids
Students, farmworkers, and the Fair Food Program
During spring of 2015, my first year at Brown, I participated in a campus-wide movement called #MoneyTalksAtBrown. This student-organized march and …
Week in Hot Takes
With Flying Colors When Nick Burchill arrived at Victoria’s Fairmont Empress hotel in April, 2001, he was carrying a suitcase full …
Walks
My slanted strides put pressure forward Air in the space where we fog (our windows) collapsing downhill Letter paper folds over …
In the Mind of the Mall
Consumer mazes, online and off
I got lost trying to go see what it’s like to get lost in an American mall—the hallmark of teen movies, …
White Dreams and Soiled Memories
content warning: sexual violence I walk outside and am met with morning dew in the grass and morning crust in my …
Night of the Four Moons
Crumb, Lorca, and Harmony with Space
Every US president since the 1970s has announced some new plan to send humans back into space. Besides ‘inspiring millions,’ those …
Leaving the Dungeon
Rhode Island sex workers and the prospect of a union
The one-story wood framed building, located just a few blocks from the Rhode Island State House, used to be home to …
Grave Goods
The possessions of the passed
Last month I called my grandma hoping to plan a trip up to Gladstone, Michigan to visit her for Easter. At …
Irona Pop
The strange popularity of Randy Newman
I think it’s going to rain today The lyric might be understood any number of ways. Though the promise of rain …
Who Counts?
The end-to-end census test in Providence County
It is no small task to count the nearly 326 million people who live in the United States and its territories. …
Strike While the Iron is Hot
The Oklahoma Education Association and the fight for a livable wage
On Monday, April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma public school teachers converged on the Oklahoma Capitol, coinciding with a walkout that …
Week in Facebook
Analog Apology Much to the surprise of everyone, Mark Zuckerberg apologized to humanity last week for the harm he has caused …
Let’s Run to the Womb and Back
the small explosion did it, skyward you tumbled too. chapped limbs smacking sunrays good morning. shoulders of honeycrisp apples, the bitten …
A Threatening Isolation
An evolution of attitudes toward bacteria in research and medicine
Alone in an agar dish, an E. coli bacterium lives just as it would in the bowels of a dog or …