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Sustainable Oral Care: An Interview with Terra & Co's Azra Hajdarevic

To combat climate change, sisters Azra and Amra Hajdarevic created a brand that focuses on sustainable oral care products with cleaner, greener materials and packaging.

culture

Trans New York: A Work of Visibility and Conversation

Award-winning filmmaker and artist Peter Bussian's photo book documents trans and nonbinary visibility throughout New York in strikingly honest portraits.

Black Lives Matter

Colorado Activist on the Importance of Record Expungement for Cannabis Convictions

Expunge Criminal Records Expunge is “to erase or remove.” An expungement proceeding is a lawsuit determining if criminal convictions can be sealed. State laws vary regarding the specifics of expunging records. This applies to all crime records. Cannabis expungement is specific to marijuana related crimes. Expungement for Cannabis

Film

Utopia and the "Gentle Fantasy of Now" in "So Pretty"

So Pretty is a documentary-style narrative film loosely based on the German novel, So schön by Ronald M. Schernikau. It centers four LGTBQ youths in New York City who struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community. This film was screened at the Berlin film festival in 2019 and won several awards.

Presidential Election 2020

7 Ways to Deal With Election Stress

As a society, it seems we are facing stressors from every side. We are months deep in a pandemic that has limited our personal freedoms and access to loved ones. We are bracing for a polarizing election, within which the basic human rights of several marginalized communities hang in the

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Sustainable Oral Care: An Interview with Terra & Co.’s Azra Hajdarevic

The COVID-19 pandemic has largely pulled our attention from another global crisis with equally devastating effects: climate change. Azra Hajdarevic and her sister Amra are small business owners who have made it their mission to raise awareness about and innovate solutions to climate change. With their company Terra & Co.

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

The Undeterred Spirit of Frida Kahlo

In 2019, I journeyed from Manhattan to Brooklyn to visit the Brooklyn Museum and absorb feminist art. When I arrived, I found the front lobby packed with visitors. There was a live band playing Mexican traditional music. Unknowingly, I had walked into Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit, Appearances Can Be Deceiving,

100 Gecs

LUmkA: Cortney Connolly's Surreal, Satirical and Multidisciplinary Brainchild

Cortney Connolly is an artist studying Collaborative Arts at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Cortney’s installation LUmkA was released on the 7th of July, 2020. Lumka 1.0 is a digital installment that spans from paintings to written work; LUmkA includes Cortknee’s Corner, a pioneering, genre-defying

Black Lives Matter

On the Uncertain Future of Education

Since March of 2020, students across the country have been absent from their classrooms. For the sake of health, safety, and social distancing, these students have been forced into remote learning. Additionally, in these last few months, racial injustices have made a resurgence within mainstream media due to continued police

Film Review

A Review of OutSet: The Young Filmmakers Project

OutSet: The Young Filmmakers Project operates in partnership with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, under the umbrella of Outfest, a LGBTQ+ annual film festival OutSet is a filmmaking program that empowers young LGBTQ+ creatives to tell their stories through film. Over the course of six months, creatives participated in a

Elegance Bratton

Queer Voices, Queer Stories: An Interview with<em> Pier Kid</em>s’ Director Elegance Bratton

Elegance Bratton’s film Pier Kids documents the lives of LGBTQ+ youth who spend much of their time socializing and surviving on the Christopher Street Pier in the West Village of New York City. Filmed over the course of three years, this documentary brilliantly captures the humanity, complexity, and community

A Review of Groundbreaking Artistic Media 

In recent years, mainstream media has widened its scope to feature the stories and work of diverse, formerly marginalized voices. 2020 has embraced this momentum. These new works of televised art have granted viewers a sense of emotional reprieve in these uncertain times in a sense much deeper than escapism.

Proposal for a 2020 U.S. Constitutional 13th Amendment: Defund the Police and Abolish Private Prisons

For the past several days, thousands of protestors in the United States and around the world have rallied in protest against the unjustifiable death of George Floyd. George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed in broad daylight while surrounded by four police officers, and his death was caught on