Posts Tagged ‘morgan wilcock’
Missed the Cliterary Open Mic? Check out the highlights here
Last Thursday, members and friends of the Eye, Quarto, and FemSex convened in the Intercultural Resource Center for an open mic focused on sex-positivity. Students came armed with poetry, prose, and creative non-fiction and fired away for a warm night of communal dialogue and entertainment.
For those who missed the event, take a look at the video above for a taste of what was said and done.
Columbia doctors confront the ‘thin ideal’
For young women, the current cultural climate poses a constant threat to health, as every day brings with it a torrent of images of thinness. Social media websites (often dubbed as “pro-ana” forums) in particular advocate dangerous means of losing weight, often triggering eating disorders in female viewers.
To find out more, The Eye filmed a visit to the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders in Washington Heights and spoke with clinicians Allegra Broft and Rachel Marsh of the Eating Disorders Research Unit.
Chelsea gallery owner recounts art destroyed by Sandy
For Magda Sawon, co-owner of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, Hurricane Sandy produced one of the rarest and most overwhelming of vignettes.
Sawon watched as water filled her gallery basement to the brim, then reversed, barely sparing the works of art on the ground floor from the barrage of water that devastated galleries throughout the area.
Having trouble imagining it for yourself? In this video, we asked Sawon to put the harrowing experience into words.
To learn more about the downtown art galleries damaged by Hurricane Sandy, read the full article in this week’s issue of The Eye.
Eye Multimedia: Peeking inside Rachel Seville’s closet
In this week’s interview, Kaitlin Phillips chats with Rachel Seville, the creator of the fashion blog Pizza Rulez. The Eye visited her Upper East Side apartment to take a look inside the closet of an internet fashionista.