I Hate Myself and So Can You: Cosmo YouTube Tutorials
Boilerplate Magazine’s editorial staff, writers, and readers hold discussions regarding our most recent articles at our weekly General Body meetings. Many people felt that…
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camGirlcam
camGirlcam is a work exploring the claustrophobia and liberation of being a biological creature in a technologically mediated world. It is inspired by National…
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Metcalf: An Adequate Mental Health Resource?
As you walk behind Main Building at the heart of Vassar’s campus, many gorgeous academic buildings stand among a rich, green landscape of trees…
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Short Memories: Media and the Construction of “Radical Islam”
On August 19th, 2014, the day that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (known as ISIS or simply the Islamic State) uploaded to…
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‘Dear White People’, Revisited
On Thursday morning, I woke up to the media detailing the ways in which the second autopsy report corroborated all of Officer Darren Wilson’s,…
Read MoreShow Me the Money: The Fight for Endowment Transparency
Underneath promises of a diverse campus community, an “elite” education, and a commitment to social responsibility, lies an unaccounted $804 million. This money, otherwise…
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Consuming Ebola: Media, Myth, and Madness
There is an enduring and guttural fear surrounding the Ebola virus: its symptoms are gruesome, its onset is sudden and there is no known…
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A summer ago I found some old slides from my grandparents attic, and perhaps as a desperate attempt at resisting an artificial nostalgia, I…
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Trayless Activism
Disclaimer: This article may be read as a thought exercise, an absurdist play, and/or a theoretical adventure involving Aramark Corporation and Vassar College. It…
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