vol XIII
In 2016, Kanye West shocked the world by donning a MAGA hat and publicly supporting the very controversial President Donald Trump. This show of support was seen as problematic by much of popular culture and most African Americans as that President stood for racial and social opinions that an African American man was supposed to oppose. Continue reading An Entertainer Like No Other: Sammy Davis, Jr.
I was raised in Duncan, Oklahoma, a small town rooted in the heart of the southwestern part of the state. It is the kind of place with a church on every street corner, with most of the hubbub unfolding in the bread aisle of the local Wal-Mart Supercenter. The most note-worthy event each week is . . . Continue reading A Suburban Slaughter: Mimesis & Myth in Murder
“The problem is not with your body; the problem is what you think of it and what you think of yourself.” The anonymous quotation above acknowledges the problem of body dissatisfaction that has plagued a majority of contemporary American women . . . Continue reading How Black and White Women Internalize Beauty Standards Centering Thinness and Whiteness
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, he imagined a society in which human beings were created through an assembly line type process, and where their thoughts and desires were conditioned from birth by those in power. Today, we are on the cusp of a technological revolution within the genomics field, and Huxley’s hypothesis just might prove . . . Continue reading The Precarious Potentials of Human Genome Editing
In November of 1919, American expatriate Sylvia Beach opened her little shop titled Shakespeare and Company out of a small rental on the rue Dupuytren of Paris, France. The business was a lending library and, on the relatively rare occasion that actual currency was exchanged for books, a bookstore. Continue reading A Recognition Proper to the Femininity of Sylvia Beach
The topic of the media’s portrayal of the LGBTQ community, or rather the lack of it, has gradually made its way into the limelight as the topic of homosexuality has become less taboo in mainstream culture. Television audiences have started to notice . . . Continue reading The Fault In Our On-Screen Presence
Neither the Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program nor this thirteenth issue of our student literary publication would exist without the contributions of so many excellent undergraduate writers. The primary credit for Volume XIII of Brainstorm belongs to the students whose work we showcase this year: Dylan Becker, Maddisen Foster, Carly Kirkland, Kaly Pham, Jennevieve E. Scott, and Carolyne Tsuma . . . Continue reading Acknowledgements (vol. XIII)