Dukie on the Defense
The major press outlets often refer to Durham as a “sleepy” little Southern town. It's funny that in my four years of living here, I've never once considered Durham as anything other than alive....
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
United 93
On controversy and great filmmaking “United 93” could have easily been gratuitous, or cheesy, or exploitative. It is none of these things. If you feel ready to confront the tragedy of the...
The Path to Freedom: The Struggle Against Human trafficking
An Interview with La Strada’s Tetyana Mityura, a leading activist that has spent over five years on the front lines of Ukraine’s war against human trafficking and sexual slavery. There is...
After the Storm
Hurricanes are scary, but in a basic, elemental way. They don't mean to destroy everything in their path; water and air molecules don't get together and decide that today they are going to batter the...
Natasha From Russia
When you’re privileged enough to attend a top-tier American university such as Duke, losing sight of the fact that your fate may have been different often comes with the package. Strutting to class...
Burkhas, Bikinis, and Other Lies
“You're in deep doo-doo now," was my 6th grade math teacher's favorite expression, the one that signaled a mini-Apocalypse in the form of a D grade, or a detention, or a shrill call to the parents...
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Quick memo to the good ol' folks that drive straight from church to the pro-war rally in their starred and striped S.U.V.'s: You are total idiots. Oh, I am sorry. I doubt even you would have an easy...
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
By now, most people have seen the images of war-crimes that went on in the Abu Ghraib prison. This is Rush Limbaugh's response to the torture, as tactful and intelligent as always: ”This is no...
Wet Dreaming, Sort Of
On Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers” Decadence is good for you. Take your decadence like you take your vitamins. I understood this whilst freezing my bum off outside a Canadian Cineplex,...
On Virginity
“What IS virginity?” I first knew that different people would answer this question differently as I rode down an escalator in a German shopping mall a few years ago; my friend turned toward me...