Farewell Column: UNC doesn’t protect survivors of sexual assault. I know because I am one.
On the morning I wrote this column, I was walking down Franklin Street, flowers under my arm, taking in my last few days of studenthood.
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On the morning I wrote this column, I was walking down Franklin Street, flowers under my arm, taking in my last few days of studenthood.
Picture a face: poreless skin shaped upward into perfectly-defined, high cheekbones. Eyebrows feathered, soaped and set. Wispy lashes curled around tiger eyes.
Just think of this: You’re on hour two of a panic attack. You can’t afford to miss class. You live off campus, so you can’t stop by your dorm for a quick refresh. You have homework in each of your classes. And you have three exams left in the day.
Maybe I’m embittered because I’ve been in a relationship for four years, but I don’t understand online dating.
In the words of Carrie Bradshaw herself: is hope a drug we need to go off of? Or is it keeping us alive?
In October, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson stated, in the context of the state’s sex education curriculum, that no school should “... be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth.”
Who determines the body count threshold? I’m not sure. As a teenager, I assumed it was Carrie Bradshaw, Cosmopolitan or those sex scientists they’d get to fill time during the afternoons on NPR. Now, TikTok is slowly smoothing my brain.
Content warning: This article contains detailed information about abortion-related care, as well as mention of sexual assault.
OnlyFans, the content subscription platform, announced earlier this month it would be banning sexually explicit content beginning in October. The platform has since reversed that decision following public outcry, but the reversal may only be temporary.
Rapper-genius Megan Thee Stallion dubbed the summer of 2019 “Hot Girl Summer,” which resulted in three glorious, sun-filled months of dating, traveling, partying, independence and the knowledge that Hot Girls everywhere were living their truth.
2020 was a lot of things, but it was not the year of sex.
Right before the neon title hits, HBO’s "Euphoria" spends two minutes lensing into teenager Jules’ (Hunter Schafer) eyes. Memory after memory spills out in swift beats: vignette portraits of love, addiction, gender dysphoria, trauma and sex. It’s difficult to parse what feels real and what feels pornographic. Wincing feels like an inflammatory response — but yet, you can’t look away.
The parameters of intimacy are mutating, and with it, so is sex work. That’s why many people are flocking to online platforms for sell-it-yourself adult content. OnlyFans has finally put the business of sex work in the hands of its creators. But is it the final frontier?
The tools we use for dating and intimacy — apps like Tinder and Grindr, video-chat platforms like Zoom — have existed long before the pandemic started, but their usage has shifted drastically. Bumble has experienced an 84 percent increase in video call volume and longevity, and the adult platform OnlyFans has reported a 75 percent increase in sign-ups, a number likely to grow as more people turn to cybersex work in the wake of COVID-19 layoffs.
After the University’s disastrous plan to cancel in-person classes, the overarching sentiment from off-campus voices has been: “Could anyone have expected this?”
The personal is political in husband-and-wife duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s new documentary, "Working in Protest," which details 30 years of work documenting dissent — from the Ku Klux Klan’s 1987 march down E. Franklin Street to modern-day anti-Trump rallies and beyond. "Working in Protest" will premiere at the Carrboro Film Festival in November.
The classic American outlaw story is getting a twist as UNC Pauper Players travel back in time with their fall production of "Bonnie & Clyde," a musical about the famous criminal duo.
The Echoes aren't like other improv groups. Inspired by dream logic, this North Carolina-based group will be bringing audiences on an unexpected trip at The PIT on Saturday at 8 p.m.
As midterm season ramps up, drain your stress with a celebration of tranquility and sustainability through the Camellia Forest Tea Gardens' planting workshop Sunday.
Mistyre Bonds, a UNC senior, currently serves as the Residential Poetry Director for UNC Wordsmiths, a student-run slam poetry organization. Wordsmiths will host its September slam on Sept. 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Anne Queen Lounge of Campus Y. The first and second place winners of the slam will get a chance to compete for a spot on UNC's 2018-2019 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) team.