Cyberspace is increasingly relevant as both an adjunct and competitor to our analogue reality—especially in the context of our atomized pandemic existence—and while it exploits, it also offers a space for criticism, imagination, and restorative practice.
Tracing the origins of true crime media and America’s fascination with gore leads to an early form of violent storytelling: murder ballads
Read MoreNASA, an American pride, led by former Nazis post-WW2? Operation Paperclip was an initiative to bring Nazi Scientists to the US, so the US could win the Space Race. As a Jewish individual, Savie comments on this situation and reflects on her Jewish identity.
Read MoreThe use of art to make a political statement has become more pertinent when understanding violence in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Read MoreWhat does the pandemic mean for Paris’ houseless population? Mary reflects on her time volunteering with Serve the City Paris.
Read MoreBahloul creates a space in Paris that stands for the inclusive and tolerant Islam that she believes in
Read MoreIn Japan, where a myth of racial homogeneity persists, protesters struggle to draw support from a wider Japanese audience.
Students return to campus from across the world. The Hibou editors interviewed a number of students, wanting to know how they are feeling. Do you feel safe? What are your concerns for the future?
Read MoreIs it unusual to have this many candidates running?
Read MoreAUP has significant ways to go in diversifying faculty and ensuring adequate representation on both ethnic and cultural levels.
Read MoreThe way your hand slips into mine feels as though god herself moulded our fingers just so they could interlock. When you’re with me, the mess in my mind seems surmountable and the loud chaos of the outside world softens, even if just for a moment.
Every successful student government depends on consistent and widespread student engagement. It is impossible to effectively advocate for one’s constituents if there is no communication about what their needs and preferences are.
Read MoreWithout the ability to publically challenge the government in China, it is extremely difficult to say if #MeToo can become something more than a clever hashtag meant to circumvent censors. What matters is the recognition that the problem is systemic, present and will not disappear without examining the troubled dynamics of power.
Read MoreAs for the families of victims, and for many, many Taiwanese, Chiang Kai-shek enacted terror upon Taiwan, and his image cannot be reconciled as that of a divisive hero. He was a dictator, and whatever good he accomplished was at the expense of far more wrongdoings.
Read MoreAnd you left your shit here too
Your jacket, cigarette addiction, jazz and back rubs
These things don’t just dissolve
Read MoreFlit between day dreams and prickly reality
They wish vertigo upon themselves, just a couple more seconds in lush vanity
A powerful poem.
Read MoreLa soirée se couche lentement, comme des bulles qui montent au sommet du champagne dans votre verre, et peint le ciel de rose et d’orange…
