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Sammy Rae Performs at Pearl Street Nightclub

Before the Pearl Street Nightclub doors opened at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers huddled under awnings for shelter from the rain. The suboptimal weather conditions did nothing to hamper the excitement. In the next hour before the live performance began, there were plenty of people crowding into the intimate venue and singing along to pre-show music. 

A Concert Review of Julien Baker

“I’ve gotta break up sincerity with humor every now and again,” said Julien Baker after making her audience laugh and moments before launching into her devastating song “Sprained Ankle” at a sold-out but intimate show at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, on tour for her 2021 album “Little Oblivions.” 

Please stop dramatizing rape on TV

A show that only knows how to develop female characters by raping them is not a show made for women or survivors. When writers create strong female characters, they are creating some of the only positive role models that young viewers have. Raping them to make them more appeasing to the male gaze is a vile and inaccessible dramatic mechanism that carelessly perpetuates gendered violence.