By Isabel Ortiz
May 1, 2013
There is no scene in Spring Breakers where an instance of sexual assault is depicted explicitly as such, yet director Harmony Korine takes perverse delight in suspending the audience in harrowing anticipation of the event. …
By Emily Hong
March 28, 2013
I’m not one of the elegant Yalies, chicly fleeting down High Street.
I’m a scatterbrained manic.
I rush from SSS to Science Hill to the post office in a slightly ripped puffy coat, …
By Maya Binyam March 26, 2013
“To be naked is to be without disguise. To be on display is to have the surface of one’s …
March 4, 2013
In case you happened to forget, the Oscars took place Sunday night. I include the opening phrase because the 85th Academy Awards was perhaps the most uneventful show I’ve ever had to sit through. …
February 24, 2013
Throughout Django Unchained, nude and semi-nude black bodies are constantly put on display. From the opening, which depicts a chain gang of bound, shirtless slaves being led through the night, to the now infamous mandingo …
By Jess McHugh
February 22, 2013
Horror of horrors. The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed reached for …
December 1, 2012
StormMiguel Florez was very grateful to be a guest at Yale’s Trans Week this year, he told the audience in J.E. Theatre on November 8, earnestly; “Now I’m going to do what I really …
November 27, 2012
Red, Taylor Swift’s newest album from Big Machine Records, is her largest departure from the girl-with-a guitar-and-a-broken heart gimmick that garnered her the majority of her original fan base, devoted teenage girls. This departure, of course, …
By Ava Kofman
November 20, 2012
To say “Last month Samuel R. Delany came to campus to deliver the Brudner Lecture” is to feel satisfied upon finding only a naked shoulder in a bunched up quilt. You do not …
