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The Ideal Conditions under which to see ‘Get Out,’ as a White Person

by Andrea Crowley-Hughes Take all of a Saturday to decide whether you’re going to see Jordan Peele’s lauded horror comedy, “Get Out.” You generally can’t make it through horror movies without hyperventilating, but Jesse David Fox says you’ll be okay, and most everyone you’ve heard from agrees that the quality of this work is worth the discomfort. After the apprehensive part of your brain puts forth its losing arguments, head into the night. Hold your partner’s hand extra tight as…

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We Came Late: Thoughts After the NYC Women’s March

by Andrea Crowley-Hughes The night before the New York City Women’s March, I was stowing Lara bars and neatly organized baggies filled with bandages, gauze and butterfly closures into our backpacks. I had read all the pre-march checklists I could fit into a browser window crammed with open tabs. Still, I was too late in learning that Maalox is a more effective treatment for tear gas irritated eyes than Pepto Bismol. My mind has the tendency of jumping to –…

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5 Tech Innovations to Help us Survive the Age of Trump

By Andrea Crowley-Hughes We expected to launch The Refresh during interesting times, but our second week was “interesting” in a way we never would have wanted. We had planned to run reaction pieces on the election of the Hillary Clinton as the United States’ first female president, but after November 8 found ourselves re-sharing Tana’s article on pre-election self care as it took on a whole new light. To say the shock of Donald Trump’s election has fully subsided would…

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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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