New Public Statue in NYC Has Feminist Statement

In an attempt to encourage companies to take notice and action against gender inequality, a new bronze sculpture has been unveiled in NYC’s Wall St. Now facing the well-known bull statue is a small girl, standing defiantly with her hands on her hips, in opposition to the giant creature. Created by artist Kristen Visbal, the new statue will draw attention to the fact that along …

Google Doodle For International Women’s Day 2017

Today, in celebration of International Women’s Day, the Google Doodle is a grandmother telling her grandchild a bedtime story about some of history’s pioneering women from all over the world. Some are easily recognizable (for instance Frida Kahlo and Ida Wells) while others aren’t so. There’s Egypt’s first woman pilot Lotifa El Nadi who rebelled against her father and worked at a flying school in …

Analyzing The Music Industry’s One-Hit Wonder

Through consideration of everything from society’s obsession with novelty to the well-known curse of the second album, High Snobiety writer Aleks Eror poses an in-depth analysis of the one-hit wonder. With stunning facts, “nearly half of all musicians that created a chart hit in the half-century in between 1955 and 2005 never did so again,” and a thoughtful approach to marketing, originality and the zeitgeist, …