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Activist Comedy: An Awkward Dinner Party in 2018

Activist Comedy: An Awkward Dinner Party in 2018

by: Jordan Walker “Laughter is your spirit being brought forth from you lips and leaving you,” according to Russ Green, a stand-up comedian who performs regularly in Washington, D.C. The foundation of stand-up comedy is truth. As any comedian will tell you, you cannot deny a laugh, or the lack thereof. However, when the universal standard for the truth is being challenged, divided, and questioned every day on every major news network and by everyone with access to a public…

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Woman in the Pit: How I Found Power and Safety at Heavy Metal Concerts

Woman in the Pit: How I Found Power and Safety at Heavy Metal Concerts

by Genevieve Lowles I don’t remember the first time I waded into a mosh pit, but I don’t think it went very well. I have vague memories of my first rock concert in 2004, tentatively throwing up the horns and jumping up and down. It was The Darkness’ UK tour, and my mum had dropped me off outside the venue while she went to the cinema next door to watch the second Bridget Jones film and wait to pick me up….

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Discovering Dance as Resistance

Discovering Dance as Resistance

by Caitlyn Berry Whenever I meet someone who tells me they “can’t dance” or they “have no rhythm,” I usually don’t respond, because I usually don’t believe them. In the rare instances I challenge their claim, I find that it is more of a fear of judgement than lack of any apparent musicality or ability to move. Hundreds, even thousands of years ago, dance was simply a spiritual and social practice where nearly all members of society were participants. It…

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Say It To A Crowd: Florence + The Machine at Barclays June 14, 2016

Say It To A Crowd: Florence + The Machine at Barclays June 14, 2016

by Andrea Crowley-Hughes Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine was dreamily enthusiastic when she explained how performing “Various Storms and Saints” live led her to regard the song in a different way. To a packed Barclays Center on June 14, Florence said she initially wanted the song cut from the album she was touring to promote, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.” “At the time when I wrote it, I was still very much in the feeling of this…

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