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April 5, 2019 // By Kristen Milburn

#FocusImmigration: The Billion-Dollar Market You Don’t Know About

Johanna Ponce can remember being dragged to a local jewelry store to transfer money to her grandmother in Mexico since before she knew how to count money herself. She would enter the dimly lit store a few times a year and stand next to glimmering necklaces and rings as her dad sent money back to his mother in Puebla. Maybe, if she was lucky, her dad would take her out to eat after they were finished. Her father has worked at Chuck’s Cafe in Princeton, New Jersey since he first came to America ...
March 27, 2019 // By Kristen Milburn

The Beauty of Choice

I, like many tween girls before me, first applied makeup after following a simple makeup tutorial from Seventeen Magazine. I studied the headline about makeup products that you needed to impress your crush and applied bright red lipstick and thick, uneven chunks of eyeliner on my eyelids. I had officially entered the world of makeup and had the Bobo the Clown face to prove it. The clown makeup washed off, but the feeling that I had to use specific products to impress someone else never did. Maga...
March 20, 2019 // By Kristen Milburn

‘Captain Marvel’ Soars Higher, Further and Faster

Two days before Brie Larson, the star of “Captain Marvel,” surprised audiences at the Clifton Commons theater to serve popcorn and discuss the movie, I sat in the same theater, shoving my face with popcorn, anxiously awaiting Marvel’s first female-led film. The excitement for the film was palpable as “Captain Marvel” earned $455 million during opening weekend. Captain Marvel’s origin story is inspiring and feminist without being too cavalier in its messages, proving that the Marvel C...
February 20, 2019 // By Kristen Milburn

Erin Webb Will Stab You With a Needle and Be Happy About it

Russ Hall opened in 1915 as the first residence hall at Montclair State University. It housed students studying to be teachers, was used briefly as an administrative building and now serves as the makeshift tattoo parlor for Erin Webb, whose brightly colored hair and heavily tattooed arms might differ slightly from the appearance of Russ’ first residents. Webb, a senior English major whose pronouns are “they” and “their,” lives on the renovated fourth floor of the build...