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Articles by Lex Brode
Sundance 2020: (My) Day One
Sundance Film Festival, taking place near the end of January every year, celebrates what’s considered the best in independent film — from feature films and documentary to shorts and episodic content. This year, in its home of Park City, Utah, there were over 128 feature films spanning the 10-day festival. And I got the chance to see some of them. For some context on my trip to Sundance … I’ve actually been trying to attend the festival since 2006.
Slowly But Surely Becoming a Writer
I began writing seriously when I was about 13. Many would ask what I was doing on my parent’s brick of a laptop that I would sneak away from the kitchen and into my room after supper. My only answer was that I was writing. Short stories? Nope. Poetry? Definitely not. I was writing a novel. After reading “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games” somewhere I figured, if Stephanie Meyer and Suzanne Collins could do it, why not me?
Anxiety Like A Bound Rope; Depression is Like A Black Hole
Art by Mellyssa Diggs • January 27, 2020 You wake up with the rope around your legs. Getting up feels like getting out of a tight alley space but you do it anyway. All of a sudden, the rope is strangling your legs. You beg. You plead. The rope gets tighter. Restless. It begins to break the skin. Maybe someone hears explaining you cannot get unraveled. “How hard can it be. It’s just a rope. Your arms are free” “I am already tried” Then I just don’t answer or ask again. You wake up again.
Comparison - the trap for artistic growth
Every time you do not follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. — Shakti Gawain There is a very interesting reflection that Osho made in his book “fame, fortune and ambition” that goes like this: People always think < the neighbor chicken its better than mine> But they are all wrong, they are distracted.
Bending | Harness Magazine
Poetry by Rachel Jacobs • January 20, 2020 Anxiety lives in wanting perfection It begins in my fear of rejection This nervous system in my head Creates a downfall that lies ahead Does self-loathing have an end Before I feel myself start to bend? Comment by Phantasma Born and raised in San Diego, California, I am a creative and eccentric young woman who desires to be a writer. I am in currently studying creative writing at school and aspire to receive my masters in the future.
Thrive | Harness Magazine
Poetry by Marla Bautista • January 20, 2020 Wrestling with my past Treading lightly toward the future Not wanting anyone to see The scars from my sutures Growing up for me was tough Without a mom by my side To tell me I was okay And love me when I cried I spent many nights alone Wondering why this happened to me I didn’t have a mom My dad too was deceased Being brave was my only option To surviving the world outside With no one to cultivate my esteem And no safe place to hide Still, I thrive...
You Are Art | Harness Magazine
Art by Lex Brode • January 20, 2020 You are an artist. What makes an artist? Beauty? Grace? Creativity? All of these things live within you. Is it not art, the way each strand of your hair falls to frame a beautifully unique face? Is it not art, the way your hips sway for different melodies and genres, and the way they linger in all of your favorite places? Is it not art, the way your pencil swoops in all sorts of different loops- the way no one else’s does?
How VSCO Girls Are NOT Saving the Turtles
Culture by Hannah Sivertson • October 22, 2019 I must be getting old because it took me at least three weeks to finally understand what a VSCO girl is. By old I mean I’m several years out of high school. I didn’t think I’d lose the ability to keep on top of Internet trends this quickly, but oh well. After watching hundreds of VSCO girl stories on Snapchat, I have concluded that VSCO girls are middle or high schoolers who wear enough scrunchies to cover their entire ponytail and both arms.
Reclamation of the Pin Up
Culture by Mariah Neumaier • October 21, 2019 Historically, women of various ages, cultures, and sexual orientations have faced oppression and prejudice in society; related to gender and sexuality, more specifically regarding one’s ability to menstruate and conceive. Starting in 1889, variations on Pin-Up Illustrations have been the representation of America’s sweetheart, never too erotic, but always hourglass figured and depicting ‘the standard of societal beauty’.
Sustainable Fashion
Culture by Sponsored Content • October 17, 2019 Seven year later and it’s a fun story to look back on my involvement with sustainable fashion. I remember sitting in the middle of Bonnaroo, which was my vacationland for the last five years at this point, my safe place, my utopia. I was surrounded by love, music and adventure in the middle of an expansive farm listening to the live music jam away, lying in deep contemplation, when everything came to me.
YWCA Columbus’s Activists And Agitators
Culture by Caroline Woliver • October 17, 2019 As YWCA Columbus’s Activists and Agitators event on October 17th draws near, we deepen our commitment to personal and community empowerment towards advancing social change. During a night centered on activism and disrupting the status quo, we celebrate and learn from the important work of community leaders like Achea Redd, Nina West, Jeni Britton Bauer, and Fran Frazier, who each advocate for inclusion and social justice in their own way.
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