Tag / Serena Lekawa
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Use your emojination: the cultural politics of modern messaging
Anyone with half a brain and a smartphone (which is to say, a brain and a half) knows that modern society celebrates the emoji as a mode of expression that is visual, experiential, and succinct like nothing else. Emoji popularity is so widespread that last year, it was almost no surprise to see the laughing-so-hard-I-am-crying…
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An Interview With Dr. Paul Farmer
In this Q&A, Dr. Paul Farmer gives insights on student activism in global health, and methods for combatting health inequality. Dr. Farmer is a physician and anthropologist, co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), and Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The…
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Equality? I “Like” It
BY SERENA LEKAWA Facebook has been looking a little geometric lately. Scrolling down my newsfeed, it was impossible not to notice the pink-and-red equal sign appearing again and again: a small icon next to a friend’s name, or a large, bold upload. I was into it. What an exciting day in the history of human…
