There are many ways to fall in love with a song. One way is by following your favorite artist and drinking up each release, already half in love with it before it has even released. Or it can happen the other way around — you can hear a song and be completely clueless about the […]
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship, or train. There is almost a peculiar correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts, […]
It has always been difficult for me to frame and define my tastes in music, leading me to be one of the many people who describe their taste in music as “eclectic.” Although it can be seen as a copout, I really can find myself embracing everything from the niche-ist corners of the music world […]
During an autumn internship in London, I found myself one day taking an alternative walking tour centered on street-art in the East End. The tour was worth taking more than once because of the dynamic, ever-changing open and free canvases. Beautiful pieces could appear and disappear overnight giving them a fleeting, abstract quality rather than […]
During a quarter-life crisis last year, I spontaneously decided to book a trip to Malaysia to visit a high-school friend completing an internship there. Next thing I knew, I was standing alone under a small tarp in an orangutan sanctuary in Sarawak waiting for a rainstorm to pass. As I was alone and as I […]
The Yolngu are an aggregation of indigenous Australian people. In their mythology the Djanggawul, three Yolngu siblings, created the landscape of Australia and covered it with flora. The legend goes that they were from an island that lies to the east of Arnhem Land where Barnubirr, the creator-spirit who guided the Djanggawul siblings and rises […]
“Indigeneity is not a monolith. There is not one way to be indigenous. It is utterly wrong to put us all under the same roof and be expected to somewhat magically get along, to interact and read each other’s minds.” Columbian-Canadian artist Lido Pimienta’s poignant comments perfectly encapsulate one dimension of the complexity that […]
While I was on an exchange abroad, I took Islamic Archaeology as one of my electives. The elective turned out to be a graduate-level course with the class consisting of only one other exchange student and four graduate students of Near-Eastern Archaeology. I took the course as an Anthropology elective while my undergrad counterpart took […]
