The Archive
Dear Indy
How do I know the difference between being friends with someone and having romantic feelings for them? I guess the traditional …
Divine Narration
The ethics and ethos of modern astrology
By no fault but my own, I have retained very little from my sixth-grade science class. Even so, I vaguely remember …
Sirens, Camera, Action
Policing entertainment in East Providence
The sun is officially down, but a morose blue still lingers in the sky behind Sergeant Michael Rapoza. He’s driving somewhere, …
On the Almost Liberating Possibilities of Moshing
A Personal Politics of Mosh Pits
I was first introduced to moshing by the massive bruise on my coworker Dannyboi’s cheek. Dannyboi shuffled into the ice cream …
Truvada Blues
Prep and the historical transmission of aids
In October of 2019, the queer publication GAYLETTER posted an Instagram advertisement depicting a shirtless DJ surrounded by neon, fuzz-bordered lettering. …
Building Movements, Building Power
An interview with political activist Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour is unequivocal. Whether addressing a crowd at a Bernie rally or explaining the salient points of Kingian nonviolence in …
Spectacle of Insignificance
I work at the Harvard Film Archive twice a week, but calling it work would be unfair. It’s about 10% administrative …
Unchartered Territory
Charter changes illustrate the tightening restrictions placed on academic life in China
Toward the end of 2019, three Chinese universities made international headlines for an event that some deemed a matter of semantics …
Week in Being Sweet
THREE LIVES SAVED, NO SECOND DATE? Valentine’s Day creeps closer and you’re still waiting for your Datamatch results. So you swipe. …
Two Rallies
University students organize against the rise of fascism in India As New Delhi witnessed Brazilian dictator Jair Bolsonaro, Chief Guest of …
This Land, This Land, This Land
Exhibiting visual narratives of Narragansett indigeneity and settler violence in the house Colonial Providence built.
As a small crowd of us huddle on the cold stone staircase, Lynsea Montanari—a Narragansett visual artist—opens the night with a …
Rabbits
Alexa could not remember when she began to allow the rabbits to sleep with her, in their bed, when Rob was …
Molehills Out of Mountains
A close look at Governor Raimondo's 2021 Budget Proposal
Reading budgets is like eating broccoli stems: miserable! Gina Governor Raimondo’s annual budget proposal, released this past January, is a multivolume …
Nước is Water
Nước is water. Nước is country. The streams and seas of nước that my parents crossed in 1979 to reach a …
Crisis in Discourse
In recent years, China has moved up the value chain. No longer the world’s cheap factory, it has passed on the …
Flights of Fantasy
On Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s Undercommons
I’m trying to remember where I was when I first read The Undercommons. I don’t remember where I started it, but …
Week in Keeping Busy
MEGAN THEE STALLION + G-EAZY = <3 Celebrity gossip rarely startles us anymore. Impeachment proceedings and foreign assassinations have occupied our …
Taking 287g Agreements to Court
An interview with activist Sherrie Andre
photograph by Steve Ahlquist content warning: police violence Late in the summer of 2018, activists from the FANG Collective, a nonviolent …
Buzzed
Haircuts as a catalyst for change
It was a Wednesday afternoon in mid-March of 2013 and I was seated in a chair on the basketball court of …
Video Star
Emma Chamberlain and the Relatable YouTuber
At the end of the video “REVIEWING YOUTUBE’S HQ *insane*,” YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki joins YouTube star Emma Chamberlain on screen …
Divorce(e)
Oscar rose from his seat still crying and started to clap vigorously. He felt a little possessed and a little self-conscious, …
Mapping Capital
Urban disinvestment on the small screen
Vince Staples’ music video “FUN!” opens on a digital rendering of the planet Earth. The camera zooms in rapidly—as many of …
Chile Despertó
Paula Pacheco Soto on the Chilean student movement in historical perspective
October 26 Chile has long been heralded as one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America and an example of …
The Cold Shoulder
A flawed system is endangering RI’s homeless
When Harry lost his home in October, he went to one of Rhode Island’s largest emergency shelters: Crossroads Rhode Island. He …
Week in Comfort Food
Movable Feast “Everybody get their plates, sit down, and eat,” commuters heard, loud and clear, in a subway car in New …
The Making of a Ghost
Photographs are the closest thing we carry to memory. Though not pure representation, they can bring relief to a story, let …
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 …
Queer Callouses
I got my favorite pair of Docs my sophomore year of high school—Pascals with portions of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden …
Measuring the Small Animal of My Body
Weight loss in the era of Fitbits
content warning: body image When I was in the third grade, everyone got pedometers from our teacher. They were small and …
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 …