Disaffiliation at Yale: Rethinking Community Beyond Greek Life
At Yale, four groups have severed ties with their national organizations, a move driven, in part, to rethink the rigid structures of Greek life rather than simply reproduce them.
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Unfair Use: The Struggle for Ownership in the Age of AI
If not for several calls for interview requests from various news outlets, artist Erin Hanson might have never known that her career’s work was being trained and recreated on the AI platform Stable Diffusion. Hanson, a prominent modern artist known…
Udder Alternatives: A Milk Moo-vment
A handwritten chalkboard listing daily offerings and local favorites hangs next to the display counter at Scratch Baking, a small bakery in Milford, Connecticut. Lines often flow out the door as new faces and regulars stop by for their morning…
The Shelf Life of Relevance
When The Beatles flew from Liverpool, England to New York City in 1964, they had no idea they would become some of the most important men in music history. Sporting shiny black boots, perfectly starched suits, and identical mop-top hairstyles,…
Interrogating Identity: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Palestinian-American writer. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2020. Told in vignettes that flash between…
The Ivory Tower: Davos’s Elitist Exclusivity
Every year, chambered in a well-accommodated ski resort in Davos, Switzerland, the world’s most powerful political leaders, financial conglomerates, and tech moguls gather to discuss and formulate solutions to the world’s most dire problems. The cherry-picked members of the World…
The Shape of Dissent: An Interview with Painter Odili Donald Odita
Odili Donald Odita is a Nigerian American abstract painter. His colorful, geometric pieces reside in museums across the country and have been exhibited at the world famous Venice Biennale. His painting “Rise” hangs in the Ezra Stiles College common room…
Printmaking Is (Not) Dead: How an Analog Art Form Has Captivated a Generation of Young Artists
In the late ’90s, Alex Valentine, a recent high school graduate, discovered an emerging underground punk scene in the post-industrial warehouses of Providence, Rhode Island. He met artists barely older than himself living in a “lineage of punk houses,” dedicating…