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  • Deck the Halls with Joy, Not Bills

    The holiday season is upon us, and whether you hang red ornaments on trees and bake ginger spiced cookies, tell stories of the maccabees and feast on latkes, discuss the seven principles of kwanzaa over dinner and create mkeka mats or simply enjoy a few days off from school or work, I believe few manage…

  • Tinder; The Modern Debutante Ball

    Wax is dripping down cavalier candles mounted to the walls in copper candle holders. Maroon colored suede drapes the floor-to-ceiling windows, tied together with thick satin ropes. Through a chandelier, reflections of light are dancing across the hardwood floors. Tittle-tattling behind thick double doors of oak is an equal parts anxious and excited line of…

  • The Irony of the Pink Tax

    It is really funny. An arbitrary woman heads out the door for the day, sambas tied on her feet, matcha latte in hand, a podcast running in her headphones. She is having a good day, feeling like she’s owning it – little does she know that a familiar mise en scène of companies and institutions,…