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Category: Activism

  • Cannabis as an Entheogen – an Essay by KC Mackey

    KC Mackey is a senior at Boston University where she studies philosophy and administers the on-campus organization entitled SSDP or Students for Sensible Drug Policy: Cannabis users all have their own unique reasons for consuming this plant. Some people use it to relax after a long day of work; some people use it to relax…

  • Constitution – Poem by P Chatelain

    Constitution – Poem by P Chatelain

    Constitution what a privilege

  • Age of Information – Collab Poem by J Ramos & P Chatelain

    Age of Information By Phillipe Chatelain, Joshua Ramos The brain versus the Internet. Both vast, controlling, Subject to manipulation by the masses.

  • Unsharpened Pencils – an essay by P Chatelain

    UNSHARPENED PENCILS – by Phillipe Chatelain For the longest I never wrote in pencil. It seemed rustic and was reminiscent of the naivety of third grade.

  • The Declaration of Intellectual Independence by A Collection of Students at Boston University

    A Call to Those Who Care, We are coming of age in a broken world. We have been stretched too thin, purposefully confused by a discourse of distortion, a discourse that consistently fails to reflect reality. It is Our duty to mature as We prepare to fill positions of power in this broken world, to ensure…

  • Beware of Images

    “La trahison des images” (The Treachery of Images) René Magritte 1928–29 Oil on canvas 63.5 cm × 93.98 cm (25 in × 37 in) Los Angeles County Museum of Art In 1929, the Belgian artist Rene Magritte created The Treachery of Images. The painting showed a pipe, and under it the paradoxical inscription This is not a…

  • Tupac Shakur and Modernism

    Phillipe Chatelain’s article looks into the relationship between Tupac Shakur’s artistic expression and literary figures Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Shakur’s rap lyrics and poems conveyed his struggling experiences as a black man and gangster in America. These works align with Hughes’ call to black writers to spark social change, in keeping with Whitman’s premise…