Aug 26, 2025 | Community, Global, Music, Words
By Shaye Ritchison Chappell Roan’s music is a powerful expression of queer identity and visibility, using bold lyrics, performances, and images to demand attention when it comes to challenging societal norms, and creating a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community. Born...
Aug 26, 2025 | Global, Music, Words
By Lexi Spurgin To the average listener, Queen’s music is filled with saccharine grandiose, pomp, and regal imagery that provokes a sense that they align themselves with the upperclass indulgence of aristocrats. But to the trained ear, Queens has a myriad of songs...
Aug 26, 2025 | Global, Music, Words
By Eros Preston For as long as any society has existed, there have been expectations for its members to fit themselves into the larger group. In The Normal Album, Will Wood examines these expectations as they exist in America and explores how one may go against (or...
Aug 26, 2025 | Events, Global, Music, Words
By Eros Preston America is in a mental health crisis. Although there is no one thing to point at as the direct cause, there are two polarized viewpoints on mental illness that have exacerbated the issue into the ongoing crisis it is today. On one side of the divide...
Aug 21, 2025 | Community, Events, Global, Music, Words
By Trevor Potts “A poem will not stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb,” once wrote author Salman Rushdie. “But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth, and name the liars.” On a recent Thursday night in Broadripple, Indiana, the audience in...
Aug 21, 2025 | Global, Music, Words
By Sky Hawkins. Historically, queer people have grown with a lack of space — a notion of “behind closed doors,” or even a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. These were highly influenced by the treatment of homosexual and transgendered individuals....
