For Your Consideration: Believe women
While Alexa Demie is just another celebrity swept up in a fleeting internet conspiracy, the fixation on her being 25 versus 30 points to a larger issue of ageism in Hollywood.
Soft Power: Chinese music and artists need a new definition of ‘success’
Chinese musicians are important regardless of their ability to appeal to a Western audience.
To Be Blunt: Cannabis drug testing is unethical and a violation of privacy
Stuck in a legal gray area completely fabricated by the state, workers who hold valid medical licenses now have to choose whether to consume cannabis for personal health reasons or risk the termination of their employment.
All the World’s a Screen: Theaters aren’t essential. How we watch movies is
Movie theaters make us respect and pay attention to the movie we're watching. While they stay closed during the pandemic, we should all still watch movies with the same attention and focus.
Soft Power: Chinese food is not your personal entertainment
Subverting the “lunchbox moment” means looking critically at what we consume, especially in relation to our understanding of Chinese food.
Unquirky: Tik Tok can be used as art therapy, creative outlet amid pandemic
The day I downloaded Tik Tok, a little part of my soul died.
The Beat Lives On: Music is the voice and soul of a generation
When we talk about music today, how often do we think about yesterday? Artists of the past and present are finding a new voice and ways to spread important messages through their music and performance during the pandemic.
To Be Blunt: I just think that women
As constructions of gender continue to evolve in society, and thereby in cannabis spaces, we must remain wary of the way cultural and class barriers will continue to act as gatekeepers for marginalized women.
To Be Blunt: Cannabis culture prides itself on LGBTQ activism
Weed is for gays and girls only. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
The Afterword: White people take everything from Black culture but the burden
The enduring influence of Black culture in America as well as white people’s enduring exploitation of it is not a matter of opinion — it is fact.