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The Prattler
Dear Prattlers,This magazine is going through an identity crisis, and unlike middle school, it can’t be solved with acne medication or gay liberation. By the end of this pubescent transformation, Pratt Admin hopes to see a Prattler that is entirely online (no more printed issues) and without any artsy themes (e.g., Lost in Translation). In other words, The P
The Prattler
Dear Prattlers, I’ve got a bad habit of bringing up the end of the world and forwarding frightening articles to my friends. In part, it stems from a selfish sort of “If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me” instinct. I guess I could argue that I’m spreading awareness, which counts for something. But deep down, I know it has more to do with a primal, insati
The Prattler
In 2016, before every apology came filtered through a skilled PR team and practiced script, there was post mukbang Trisha Paytas on the kitchen floor sobbing into a front-facing camera. Not after the backlash, not once things settled, but during. Mascara halfway down her face, on the third identity crisis of the week. A video simply titled “I’m Sorry”. Someh
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“You wanna be on top?” The question that’s reverberated through television speakers and for the past two decades. America’s Next Top Model opened each episode asking us – the audience, future contestants, and young fans; what would you do to win it all? Or maybe, more importantly, what wouldn’t you? It’s been 23 years since the first cycle of ANTM premiered,
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To witness such a dramatic cultural shift in my short twenty-four years of life is, predictably, quite jarring. As a teenager, I begged for parental permission to get on Instagram–I longed for the opportunity to curate the way my peers saw me with precision. My hair was long, frizzy, and the black winged eyeliner I painted on daily was often messy and uneven
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Why are so many members of the elite being outed as perverts, pedophiles, and sexual sadists?Lauren Berlant describes “cruel optimism” as an attachment to an idea, person, or thing that restricts your flourishing as an individual, such as drugs, violence, and the American dream. Our societal structure’s cruelly-optimistic, almost Stockholm-syndrome-y attachm
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New York is obsessed with the door, because the door is humiliating. The door is where the city’s most insecure men cosplay as bouncers. In many ways these men get the best of us. We dress up, doing our hair and makeup in hopes that they might deem us worthy of entering Basement’s sacred gates. But with the growth of social media, exclusive clubs and undergr
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Ever since I moved to New York City for Pratt, I had dreams of exploring the city with friends, hitting every museum/gallery, watching a play, maybe even pretending I understood a foreign film without subtitles. I made some friends and tried to make plans, but their responses were always “too busy, work,” or “that’s kinda far.” After a while, I realized it p
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I want to see you and I don't want you to know who I am. We’d meet, simply. I'd be the barista at your favorite coffee shop. You, Baby, would smile so nicely and put a bill in the tip jar. Not for me, it's just something you do. You tip, you giggle, you make eye contact, you treat me like a human. I would notice you on the first day, you would barely catalog
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