Byline: Mollika Jai Singh

I’m Moving Out of the Internet

I’m moving offline. I really mean it this time. After writing this essay on a cloud-connected word processor, you’ll never see me surfing these waves again.

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Aster Bloom, Shostakovich Reverie

Bear witness.

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Olivia Rodrigo’s Sponsored “get him back!” Video Fails to Be Iconic

Does Olivia Rodrigo have more to give than GUTS?

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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism

“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”

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Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman

With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.

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Telescoping Fault

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “fault.”

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Mango Mind-Body Problem

“Aam belongs in the homeland, the body says.”

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Nass Members Reflect on Concentration Declarations

It’s declaration season.

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On “On Orange Juice:” In, Around, and About Legacy Poetry Institutions

A reflection on Brittani Telfair’s (‘22) poem, “On Orange Juice.”

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