Archives - Ashley Bardhan
frat reviews
Halloweekend, reviewed
I love Halloween because I love pain and watching Disney's "Hocus Pocus." I also like ghosts and being ghosted, mostly by people named "Trevor" or "Alan." That's why I spent this Halloweekend in my favorite place, deep in the bowels of shame and regret, the fraternity quad. On Friday, Camilla, Manasvi, Nia, and I went […]
introspect
In defense of being lonely
I was looking for a way to gain jurisdiction over my heart, to most effectively put myself in the box of shame, but I found something more effective. Read More
frat review
A party at Sig Ep, reviewed
“I can’t look at this,” said my friend Matty, as they exhaled a bulbous, opaque cloud of vape in the kitchen of an off-campus house inhabited by some Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers. It was a party, on a Saturday night like any other. The arid air enveloped us like a microwaveable sleeve, and we were […]
frat reviews
A party at Chi Phi, reviewed
What is hell? In 1320, Dante Alighieri's epic poem "La Divina Commedia" depicted hell as a swirling inferno, composed of nine circles of torture. The first circle was a holding pen for the unbaptized. From there down, souls were afflicted by physical manifestations of sin for all eternity. Lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, and […]
orientation week
Intro to sex at college
College: a hallowed stepping stone in the pathway to achieving traditional Western ideas of success. Do you know what else is a hallowed stepping stone in the pathway to achieving traditional Western ideas of success? Eating ass, now, apparently. Listen to me. Look me in my proverbial, amorphous eyes. You are the sole determiner of […]
Album Review
Ryan Beatty’s ‘Boy in Jeans,’ reviewed
When I listen to Ryan Beatty's recent album "Boy in Jeans," I feel like back I'm in high school — sexually repressed, spending summer in suburgatory with my undiagnosed mental illness and maybe one or two friends in their backyard pool. "Boy in Jeans" is Beatty’s queer, pop, R&B dream, completely different from the sugary […]
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D-Day
Tinashe and Princess Nokia radiate strength
"Dandelion Day" and "empowering" are two phrases you might not normally use in the same sentence, but with Tinashe’s and Princess Nokia’s D-Day performances, things changed. Although different in musical style and content, Tinashe and Nokia offered performances steeped in a shared feminine power. As her lone drummer boomed along with the speakers’ bass and […]
Alpha Delta Phi
‘The Party at the Place at the Time,’ reviewed
In the post-Snowden era, the omnipresence of digital surveillance is a constant, menacing threat. That's why I went to Alpha Delta Phi this weekend for its annual "The Party at the Place at the Time." Let's start with concept. I guess "The Party at the Place at the Time" is funny in a benevolent Caucasian […]
Frat Party Review
Mardis Gras frat party weekend, reviewed
"Fraternity," a word stemming from the Latin "fraternus" meaning "brotherly." The North American fraternity system itself can be traced as far back as the 18th century, and has been a pillar of friendship, philanthropy, and binge drinking along the way. River Campus is no stranger to a good, yummy fraternity. Our campus is home to […]
