Get excited, the Buzz issue is here! Coming back to you after the briefest of breaks, the Indy graces the world with yet another issue of incisive articles, beautiful illustration, and a general sentiment of greatness.
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Featured Articles
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For Science + Tech in this here issue 3, Caleb Stutman-Shaw B’25 explores the disastrous effects of oil companies and their simultaneous “net-zero,” green-washed, eco-conscious posturing. What is the actual good achievable by companies who have left indelible, ruinous impacts on this planet?
“Net-zero” is, in a sense, a trisyllabic manifestation of oil companies’ proposed growth-sustainability
‘compromise’.”
Read Paint it Green in print or on our website here.
Design by Jolin Chen. Illustration by Mia Cheng.
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In Issue 3 for Metabolics, Tanvi Anand B’26 is talking about flesh. Vegetarianism. Purity. The abject. What the West depicts as pure, even radical, through interpretations of Brahmin vegetarianism often misses the intrinsic hegemony that is causational of said diet’s strict social-cultural boundaries.
“It would be reductive to say that vegetarianism is minoritized, queer, or even “egalitarian” in one part of the world while being an ideological state apparatus to maintain Brahmin hegemony in another.”
Read YAS, Chicken? in print or on our website here.
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In Feats for the BUZZ Issue, Angela Lian B’26 engages in a compelling conversation with Jackie Wang, touching on themes of experimental writing, revisiting old works, and the challenges of navigating academia while staying true to oneself. Wang shares insights on the artistic process, building creative spaces, and the complexities of finding belonging both in literature and life.
“There’s a freedom in being unpublished. Writing is different when you’re just following your curiosity.”
Read In Conversation with Jackie Wang in print or on our website here.
The world awaits… go see it!
Also in this week’s issue:
Week in Review
Week in Compassion by Ben Flaumenhaft B’27 and Ilan Brusso B’27
Ephemera
Cypiogramme by Benjamin Natan R’27
Literary
Silent Meeting Script by Liliana Greyf B’26
Arts
In Pursuit of a Process by Nura Dhar B/R’25
Metro
“I’m Not Going to Lower my Expectations” by Naomi Nesmith B’25
Dear Indy
Wherever You Go, There You Are by ***** ***** B’27
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