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Monthly Archives: April, 2013

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Work of Two Political Prisoners on Display

Exhibition highlights U.S.-Cuba relationships and issues in the federal prison system

Una Scuola Italiana Di Comics A Chicago!

The Scuola Internazionale di Comics Opens its First U.S. Location in Chicago.

Atom-R Performing at Hyde Park Salon

Atom-R, a Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrisey perform at Hyde Park Salon.

SAIC Secret Admirers

A comic by Nina Palomba.

Too Much Tension

A comic by Connie West

Geometric

A comic by Griffin Miller.

LVL3 gallery

F visits LVL3 and talks to its director.

ARTBASH 2013 in Photos

The show is an ambitious collection of the work of first-year SAIC students

Walter the Bored

A comic by Dan O'Donoghue

Regeneration

A comic by Griffin Miller.

Chicago Weather

A comic by Connie West.

Abigail

A comic by Berke Yazicioglu.

Just Married

A comic by Eric Garcia.

A Sacred Space Violated

How the Tumblr Art Festival ruined Tumblr art.

Sex, Love & Discrimination

Dating in a ‘Post-Racial’ America


The racial component makes the subject of discrimination in dating tricky. Although we live in a country beset by marital inequality, no one can stop you from liking who you like, or make you like someone you don’t. We also live in a country of conflicting ideology. Everything from fables of the American Dream, to the Constitution, to the “Equal Opportunity” disclaimer at the bottom of a job application want you to believe in a post-racial, post-gender world where everyone can pick themselves up by their bootstraps and make their dreams reality.