“What’s being Blasian anyway?” That’s one question writer, performer, and Morehouse College graduate, Julian Booker asked during Blasian Narratives, a performance held Saturday, Nov. 5, by an art collaboration of the same name, at Pomona’s Rose Hills Theater. “Blasian” is a portmanteau of “Black” and “Asian,” and the Blasian Narratives Project explores
Author: Kainoa Correa
Speaker at Pomona Discusses Connection Between Music and Neuroscience
Music is certainly ingrained in modern culture–you can’t drive to work without hearing the newest Katy Perry song on the radio. Music also fills television, movies, video games, upscale restaurants, elevators –the list goes on. Music is everywhere. Some might describe this as the natural result of capitalistic, unrestrained, hedonic excess.
Intercollegiate Feminist Center Opens House with Community Focus
On Tuesday, Sept. 27, the Intercollegiate Feminist Center held its first open house of the year. The IFC, located at the foot of Scripps in Vita Nova Hall, offers programs, resources, and support to students and faculty at the 7Cs who are concerned with gender issues across the campuses. The Center’s services
Misogyny in Hop Hop is Alive and Well
This week marks the release of Mac Miller’s new album, The Divine Feminine. The album is a set of 10 odes, some in soulful chorus, sung over synthetic harmonies and piercing snares. In the album, Miller presents love as the most basic, fundamental human sentiment. Miller explores love as an emotion—romantic, intimate,
Simpson Breaks Ground at Pomona Art Museum
For the most part, Western art consists of objects that look pretty and do nothing. The West confines art to a square hanging on the wall. A tractor lives and dies on the cornfield. Art is separated from everyday life, and under no circumstances can these two worlds intersect. Rose