The trans muses of classic rock
Plucked her eyebrows on the way,
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said “Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side”
Long before stars and models like Hunter Schaffer and La...
Songs that make me gag: soundtrack to my high school years
One evening during my sophomore year, my roommates and I sat in our living room and scrolled through our Spotify accounts in search of songs that we could not stand to hear anymore. Whether these were songs tha...
“19” at Nineteen
Adele is the only artist I can claim to have listened to all my life. There are still videos of me singing “Someone Like You” into my scratchy toy microphone, the “Rolling in the Deep” music video is on...
Punk’s Unlikely Grandfather: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and the legacy of Arthur Rimbaud’s Poetry
An absolute must-read for any French high school student–myself included–Arthur Rimbaud remains one of the most famous French poets, and one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period. When I first studie...