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When one freshman sat down with the dean of her residential college last winter to discuss a medical leave, she was not expecting to spend the next eight months at home.

by Kat Kulke on October 18, 2014August 12, 2017

Selling Feminism

“If corporate feminism is the end of feminism, then it is the end of a movement that has been ending for generations—and continues to thrive, most indebted to its harshest critics.”

by Kat Kulke on April 23, 2017July 22, 2017

Personal Branding

You are a brand. The sun-drenched, chrome-filtered frames of your Instagram feed; the captioned albums on your Facebook profile. Your six-word Twitter bio, clever without pretension.

by Kat Kulke on November 14, 2015November 15, 2015

The Separation of Church and Church

When unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by white police officer Darren Wilson this past August, Americans of all colors raised their voices in sorrow and outrage.

by Kat Kulke on February 7, 2015May 11, 2015

Tongues And Roses

When, on February 9, the New York Post announced that Miley Cyrus had submitted a short film to the first-ever New York Porn Festival, countless gossip blogs rushed to report on Cyrus’ final descent into vulgarity.

by Kat Kulke on February 28, 2015March 1, 2015

Meet the Brand

By the end of her sophomore year at Princeton, Alexandra Cerf had thousands of condoms underneath her bed.

by Kat Kulke on December 6, 2015July 21, 2017

Telescoping Bodies

A young man is standing 2 m from the edge of a cliff that overlooks the ocean. The distance between the top of the cliff and the water below is 12 m.

by Camila Legaspi, Guy Johnston, H. H., Kat Kulke, Olivia Lloyd, Senna Kaine, Suzanne Doré on March 7, 2015May 26, 2020

Heroin and Hilfiger

The suburban resurgence of a lethal and addictive drug.

by Kat Kulke on February 21, 2015June 10, 2015

Suicide Music

A teenage girl is found dead in her bedroom. The culprit? Emo, a death-obsessed youth subculture. But while some teens claim emo romanticizes mental illness, others call it therapy.

by Kat Kulke on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

No Filter

There’s no reason that competence and authenticity should be odds with one another. Yet many of the ways that we read authenticity—Bernie Sanders’ oversized suits, per say, or Trump’s disregard for political correctness—do defy the codes through which we usually measure a candidate’s fitness for office.

by Kat Kulke on February 21, 2016February 28, 2016

What Does a Good Girl Look Like

Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.

by Kat Kulke on April 10, 2016April 9, 2016

Facebook’s New Gender Options

When Facebook expanded its gender options early this February, many users were finally able to represent themselves authentically to the online community. The popular social network, which had previously required users to list themselves as either male or female, added a new “custom” gender option to accommodate individuals who do not identify with the traditional gender binary.

by Kat Kulke on March 8, 2014March 8, 2014


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