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Celebrating The End of Authenticity
Read more: Celebrating The End of AuthenticityA few weeks ago I attended a concert by a band named Thinner Lizzy. They performed songs by the Irish hardrock band Thin Lizzy, but they were all just middle-aged fans of the band. Their drummer wasn’t the best I’ve ever heard, and their singer couldn’t always keep track of the lyrics. Nonetheless I had…
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Women’s March
Read more: Women’s MarchI have identified as a feminist since I was sixteen, and although I feel passionate about the movement and its causes, I had never participated in any kind of demonstration before. One of my resolutions for this year was to change that, so this year, I joined the 2019 Women’s March in Amsterdam. Full of…
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Resolution
Read more: Resolution“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore For Cooper. 1. UNION In August 2006, my parents, my sister and I were sitting in the waiting room of an animal shelter. Soon a door opened and one of the workers was practically…
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No Difference, No Direction
Read more: No Difference, No DirectionIn January I wrote an article that connected the increased use of Spotify and Netflix with the lack of direction millennials are famous for having. Yet, it´s not only billion dollar companies and streaming services that are to blame. Jacques Derrida is known worldwide, within both philosophy and literary theory, for his notion of Différance:…
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Reminder: Short Story Competition
Read more: Reminder: Short Story CompetitionToday we’d like to remind you that our annual Short Story Competition is underway. Get those creative juices flowing and send your story, including the sentence ‘Put the gun down, mom.’ by March 18th!
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