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'Lady Bird' reinvents the coming-of-age film

(11/08/17 5:02am)

In Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, “Lady Bird,” Saoirse Ronan plays Christine McPherson, a self-possessed teen who’s stuck in Sacramento for her final year at an absurdly wealthy and suffocatingly Catholic high school. She yearns to chase the art and culture of the real world, which she’s certain is somewhere on the East Coast — anywhere but here — and aches for something that’s infinitely larger than she knows. She goes by a self-given name: Lady Bird. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/11/171108-zhou-lady-bird

Indie rock act Jay Som brings 'Everybody Works' to Chapel Hill

(09/27/17 4:00am)

Jay Som performed Sunday at Chapel Hill’s Local 506, and for the entire show, Melina Duterte, the 22-year old frontwoman in round glasses and stripes, wore a pink cowboy hat. The band kicked off the set with the title track from Duterte’s latest album as Jay Som, “Everybody Works.” The intimate verses — “My folks they don’t think it’s right to be living in a shell / I’ll just bite hard on the luck” — accompanied by haunting beach instrumentals swelled into a choral chant repeated over and over: “Everybody works, everybody works.” This style of poppy repetition guides the structure of most tracks on the album — Duterte has openly proclaimed her deep love for Carly Rae Jepsen — encasing the various complexities of life into powerful mantras, creating atmospheres at once desperate and hopeful. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/09/indie-rock-act-jay-som-brings-everybody-works-to-chapel-hill

Culture of exclusion

(11/17/16 5:14pm)

I work at the Coffeehouse hidden behind Epworth dorm. For those who have never made the journey through the East Campus backwoods, you may have heard rumors that the Coffeehouse is “exclusive.” I admit in writing that this is true. Of my friends, few are not on the Coffeehouse payroll. It’s paid work, but more importantly, it’s a social circle. It isn’t qualification or achievement that get someone in, it’s something in the way they dress. It’s attitude. It’s taste. It’s pride in punk, in an anti-Duke sense of cool. Or, it’s nepotism—you know someone or you don’t—which is the route I personally took.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/11/culture-of-exclusion

​Rethinking nurture, mentoring change

(10/06/16 5:10am)

Everything I know, I was taught. My young self, as I eyed my mother blot her lips a tame magenta and tousle her long wavy hair, came to form a desire to emulate her. She was my first mentor. I knew that I was to adopt her mannerisms rather than my father’s, simply because that is what they taught me to do. This was the start of my ongoing inheritance from my mother, an inheritance that extends well beyond genetic code and toward the way I physically and mentally move through the world. Well into adulthood, the devoted student I am has never dared cut my hair as short as a boy’s.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/10/rethinking-nurture-mentoring-change

Runs like a girl

(09/22/16 4:33am)

This past Olympics, NBC commentators had much of America wincing every time they said something to the effect of “Katinka Hosszu’s husband is ‘the man responsible’ for her wins.” Katie Ledecky was purported to “swim like a man.” Serena Williams has dealt with hyper-scrutiny over her body throughout her 22-year professional career, with numerous comments fired at her muscular build. An even more painful account is the attack on Caster Semenya, the cross-country hero, who was forced to reveal various body parts to prove that, despite her achievements in speed and strength, she is not a man.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/09/runs-like-a-girl