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Drop the Mic: A Review of the New 98 Degrees Single

May 13, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

By: Mar Curran I was innocently scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the other day when something alarmed me, Internet. Headline after headline announced that 98 Degrees has released a new […]

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Media/Entertainment, Music
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Give Your Heart A Break: Lady Pop Songs To Move You Through Breakup Grief

April 11, 2013by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

By: Mar Curran Internet, my love of lady pop artists is well known. I would venture to say I am fairly well versed in how teenage girls are taught they […]

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Media/Entertainment, Mixtapes, Personal, Relationships
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Queering the Hip Hop Tradition

April 4, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

By: H. Melt  During my freshman year of college, my girlfriend at the time bluntly asked, “do you think you’re Black?” because I listened to hip hop. Some of my […]

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LGBT, Media/Entertainment, Music, Uncategorized
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Symbolia: In-Depth Journalism Meets Illustration

March 21, 2013by inourwordsblog 8 Comments

By: In Our Words Staff Much has been said about the changing face of journalism and the print or tangible fading out of fashion.  Media websites, blogs, e-books, have been […]

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Art/Culture, Media/Entertainment
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That Light Belongs to Someone Else: On Brett Ratner’s GLAAD Award

March 18, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill Brett Ratner is being awarded for repentance.  In the year after his remark, “Rehearsing is for fags”, he has apparently had an education, at the hands of […]

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Media/Entertainment
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Sarah Palin: A Woman of Caricature

February 7, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by:  Sean O’Toole The strangest mental image struck me recently whilst I was watching a scene in Game Change, the HBO TV movie about the rise of Former governor of […]

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Media/Entertainment, Politics
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Comedy: Until It Doesn’t Hurt Anymore

January 10, 2013by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Caitlin Bergh  I’m on my way to a comedy show with a beautiful, blonde-haired girl who I met in my stand-up comedy class. I signed up for the class […]

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Media/Entertainment
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Twilight Is Over, and Everything Is Wonderful

November 30, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Nico Lang Do you hear that sound blaring in the background? That’s the sound of utter elation — in the form of me Leslie Knope-dancing to LMFAO’s “Party Rock […]

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Media/Entertainment, Movies
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It’s Not Just a Costume: Pop Culture’s Fascination with Native Appropriation

November 29, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Kevin Sparrow Thanksgiving gave me a chance to reflect on my first appropriative experience in Kindergarten. For November, our teachers decided it would be a great idea to have […]

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Awareness, Media/Entertainment, Social Justice
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Girls (Without Color): How Lena Dunham Addresses Race

November 12, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by Ange Concepcion Let’s suppose I tell you there’s a show about a 20-something year old college educated female, Hannah, newly cut off from her parents, set in New York […]

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Art/Culture, Media/Entertainment, Race, TV, Women, Youths

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