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Posts tagged as “arts and culture”

Bookends: The Marxist Lesbian Bookstore, Music Venue, Event Space We All Needed

Radical bookstores are that important. Not just in theory, not just on paper, but in how we materially change the world. Bookends, the lesbian marxist bookstore in Florence, dauntingly takes on the task of running a bookstore aligned with its values, pushing against the imagined lesbian history of Northampton and working tirelessly to revive the real one. 

Hard to Miss, Impossible to Forget: Maggie Rogers Releases Third Studio Album, ‘Don’t Forget Me’

Self-described “witchy feminist rockstar” Maggie Rogers is hitting the road again.

I discovered Rogers by chance in early 2019, shortly after her first studio album, “Heard It in a Past Life” came out. Since then, Rogers has released two albums, “Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011–2016” (2020) and “Surrender” (2022). During this time, I have grappled with simultaneously wanting to gate-keep Roger’s musical genius and impose it on all of my family, friends and acquaintances. Despite my greatest efforts, I have been unable to keep Maggie Rogers to myself.

The Incredibly True Story Of How I Fell In Love With a Movie

About a year ago, I discovered “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love” (1995), a beautiful independent romance film written and directed by a fellow Smithie, Maria Maggenti ’86 which tells the story of how two teenage girls fall in love with each other.