The Archive

It has been months of pajamas and slippers, but now is the time to upgrade to check blazers and chunky boots.

They laid their secrets onto me and plopped themselves onto my cold tiled floor, criss-cross applesauce, to look at their reflections out of the window, set out to discover what’s on the other side.

In 2003, the famous Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw refused to wear the hair product, as though it was the butt of a joke. Seventeen years later, the scrunchy is still around and proving that Carrie was wrong.

“The song sends a powerful message about the Black experience in America, and the slow but continuing march to progress. These ideas being spoken by a mainstream artist definitely reaches a younger crowd and boost civic engagement and allyship.”

“many books and plays in the literary canon we are taught are simply old, and outdated texts often express outdated ideas. Patriarchal thinking from the past still impacts the canon today, as it is the white male voice that most often determines what is “good.”

“My queer friends and I have repeatedly whined about the “quiet” nature of most WLW films, yearning for loud, fun movies about girls falling in love. While some do exist, the sapphic film canon is overwhelmingly driven by tragic narratives.”

“In a way I think that comfort viewing and the rewatching of old episodes has helped many people maintain some sense of normalcy [and] nostalgia for an easier or more familiar time than the one we’re living in right now,”

“Social media offers a unique space for these “unorganized religions” to gain popularity and exposure to an audience that may be unfamiliar with them.”

“But not even the comfort of being around other Black people could protect me from the microaggressions and subtle racism that dominates our white campus.”