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Kat Gordon and the 3% Conference: Gender Misrepresentation in Creative Agencies
I learned about Kat Gordon and her leadership initiative, the 3% Conference, when I stumbled across a document with a hot pink title. Confidently, it stated: “100 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Drive the 3% Number Upward.” But 3% of what? After reading a couple items on the document including “Banish the…
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Crack + Cider: Swapping Extra Change for Socks
At first, “Crack + Cider” might seem a crass name for an e-commerce site intended to help the homeless. But that’s just the point. Before the company’s launch, a British panhandler told its founding duo, “People don’t give me money because they just think I’ll spend it on crack and cider.” That’s exactly the impression…
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The Selfie Stick’s Passport
Traveling through Eastern Europe this past May, I was exposed to many firsts. From inhaling paprika-infused goulash to butchering Hungarian phrases, my trip overflowed “foreign.” However, putting these multicultural experiences aside, the most exotic behavior I witnessed was not a new tradition, but it surrounded a new cultural artifact. Along the Danube, outside the Berlin…
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TGIF and “The Fat Jewish:” Why we should look forward to Mondays
TGIF. The four letter word that everyone seems to love. In reality, it’s an acronym. Yet its incessant chanting from desks, water coolers and lunch tables has eliminated the need to pause and remember “Thank God It’s Friday’s” longer form. Having morphed into a cultural symbol, people speak and swallow TGIF without hesitation. As a…
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Grow a Pair
I disappoint myself every time I say “grow some balls.” Every time I cannot believe the words are exiting my mouth, each time I internally furrow my brow and wonder why I needed to express my sentiment in that way, why I couldn’t alter my diction to adhere to what I actually stand for. I…
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Lucrative Perks: The Man Repeller on Eating Disorders
Leandra Medine is an icon. The 27 year old of Turkish and Iranian descent describes her self-aware blog, Man Repeller, as “a humorous website for serious fashion.” Its accolades stand up to the description – combining Medine’s signature cheeky humor with the blog’s incredible clout when it comes to educating the fashionably elite. In 2012 Medine added recognition as…
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The Sidewalks Kept Me Off the Streets
We’ve seen it before. We might even have one hanging in our closet or resting in our drawer. The omnipresent Tupac, the illustrious Biggie, peering down on us through well-circulated images of their countenances, plastered on dorm walls and printed on T-shirts. Any college student can recognize these ubiquitous images, state a couple sentences’ background…
