Upcycling Dead White Men’s Clothes
BY: Kristen Si Along the Volta River, the environmental destruction of the global fashion industry cannot be ignored. The shores are suffocated under mountains of tattered fabric, an imprint of waste colonialism onto the landscape of Ghana.1 Just an hour’s drive away lies Kantamanto Market, Africa’s largest second-hand clothing market. The streets are littered with…
Living an Ecofeminist Life
BY: Andrea Shinyoung Kim Living an Ecofeminist Life is an immersive audio essay that draws from urban legends of Nature’s wrath, Greek mythology, reproductive biology, and contemporary cyborg witchcraft to consider what it means to live an ecofeminist life. Works Cited Ahmed, S. (2019). Living a feminist life. Zubaan. Cadon, B. (2017, May 17). At Hack the Earth,…
When Translation Becomes Hacking
BY: Aidan Simpson April 4th, 2021: “This Easter Sunday, Mario is resurrected in Brazil (?)! Come check out a Mario World (or better, Mario World) 100% in Portuguese!”, reads a tweet by Twitter user “BMatSantos”[1]. This tweet, along with a short YouTube video[2], serves as the formal announcement of the first-ever release of the 1990…
Voceteo
BY: Alejandro Tañón Díaz Creating the Scene Picture the scene, you arrive at a huge parking lot filled with cars and people in their respective teams. Then, you notice all the cars are a bit peculiar — they are all filled to the brim with speakers. The trunk is filled with speakers; there are even…
Hacking Health
BY: Alexa Fronczek-Lewis A fulfilling life necessitates good health, which relies on access to quality healthcare. In the United States, this access is elusive for many. The African-American community, specifically Black women, has endured countless instances of medical professionals lacking care for the women, their families, and their children, revealing a gruesome history within the…
The Crafting of Worlds: On Animation, Born of Many Places
BY: Max Yu animation as a subversive craft: tentatively Deportivo, Baby (Estampita, Argentina); Legend of the Sky Kingdom (Sunrise Productions, Zimbabwe) These are very different works from very different places, engaged with animation itself in different ways; their creators are rarely engaged in the same projects or situated in the same contexts. By placing these…
These Are Not the Droids You’re Looking For
BY: Victor Reyes Espinoza In countries such as Venezuela where resources are scarce, modern phones are inaccessibly priced and older phones are more attainable. However, most popular apps require the use of a recent Android version to which these older models may not have been updated. Independent Android developers create custom ROMs that allow users…
Culture Meets the Commute: Reclaiming Mobility with the Matatu
BY: Jenny Wang You can visualize a lot, from a city’s sounds. Can you feel yourself waiting to get off the Red Line? Or picture the 1 bus, traveling on Mass Ave, stopping right in front of you? Or if it’s been so long since you’ve been in Cambridge, can you imagine yourself in this…
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