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Under the Arch

Welcome to Under the Arch, WSN’s magazine. Under the Arch publishes editions with a unique theme each month. For more information or to contribute, please contact [email protected].

Julian Hammond Santander: Thinking about capturing sexuality with Ian, it’s very important to focus on the power of selectiveness in showing. The idea that you’re only seeing as much as Ian—or I—want you to. Maybe it’s half a snarling mouth or the faint line down his abdomen, the outline of a face or an exposed chest presented proudly with pout. (Staff Photo by Julian Hammond Santander)

Ian Partman on revolution, abolition and activist scholarship

Gallatin sophomore is changing the world, one movement at a time.
Kevin Kurian, Opinion Editor Dec 10, 2021

Ian Partman strode into the headquarters of WSN, his steps imbued with purpose. The first thing I noticed when I saw him wasn’t the headphones dangling around his neck or the...

When asked how he approached photographing the sex educator, Jason Turner explained, When I think of sex, I still think of love. I suppose these pictures show that side of it all. (Photo by Jason Turner)

Tara Jones: sex educator and advocate

College of Arts & Science senior is calling for comprehensive sex education centering around black and queer voices.
Rachel Mashambanhaka, Contributing Writer Dec 10, 2021

When I first sat down with Tara Jones in Jurow Lecture Hall, my mind was racing with all the questions I wanted to ask. She was “the Sex Educator,” according to her Instagram....

NYUs Sexpert, Alyssa LaFosse, is a trained resource for students to consult about their sexual health. (Photo by Aleksandra Goldberg)

Alyssa LaFosse says it’s okay to talk about sex

NYU’s Sexpert is here to talk about anything. Seriously, anything.
Aleksandra Goldberg, Contributing Writer Dec 10, 2021

Behind the bright, clean doors of NYU’s Student Health Center primary care waiting area sits a small, cozy room — the office of resident HIV counselor and Sexpert, Alyssa LaFosse....

Shirene Anand: Victoria’s comfort in this shoot was what made this such a success. The props — stickers and a tangerine — helped hone the entire shoot and highlight theme as well. (Photo by Shirene Anand)

Victoria Abraham on fat liberation and authenticity

College of Arts and Sciences senior educates by simply existing online as a fat person.
Lorraine Olaya, Copy Chief Dec 10, 2021

Victoria Abraham seems like a typical NYU senior, working toward finishing her public policy degree and thinking about what she might do after graduation. With her down-to-earth...

Tommy Tran: I was inspired by the concept of divine femininity where a feminine figure can just be themselves — they don’t have to fit into the narrative that men have painted them to be. (Photo by Tommy Tran)

Victoria Husain on leaning into pleasure: sex, nature and community

Victoria Husain teaches us what it means to be accepting of happiness and sexual energy.
Jules Roscoe, Contributing Writer Dec 10, 2021

"I hope we're not in someone's backyard."  Victoria Husain and I are standing on a stone path in a community garden one block east of Tompkins Square Park. We had been walking...

Dugan described moving to New York City for college as the start of a new journey. (Image courtesy of Kiersten Dugan)

The library of my mind

In this personal narrative, Features Editor Kiersten Dugan illustrates the inner workings of her mind.
Kiersten Dugan, Features Editor Dec 9, 2021

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library." —Jorge Luis Borges As I prepared to leave my home and start my journey somewhere new, I thought about every...

(Staff Photo by Julian Hammond Santander)

In between yesterday and tomorrow

The final Exposures piece of fall 2021 concludes the first; again accompanied by words from thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Julian Hammond Santander, Exposures Editor Dec 9, 2021

In conclusion to my first piece as Exposures Editor, ‘Conflict in the search of permanency,’ I return to California — this time a California less familiar to us. By abstracting...

Fringe Fall 2021

Fringe Fall 2021

Nov 24, 2021

(Staff Photo by Brooke Nguyen)

Party stories that we’re legally allowed to talk about

Nov 24, 2021

Dylan Campana  I was a senior in high school, going to a party on a Friday night in the Lower East Side. The basement was packed, the music was blasting and the crowd was denser...

(Staff Photo by Taylor Knight)

The Factory, revived

New Yorkers may be nostalgic for Andy Warhol’s ’70s-era Factory, but the spirit of artistic innovation and youthful collaboration is alive and well.
Ashley Wu, Editor in Chief Nov 24, 2021

When I was 17, I saw Nan Goldin’s “Ballad of Sexual Dependency” at the Museum of Modern Art. Goldin’s photographs flashed across the screen as the pastoral chords of “I’ll...

(Staff Photo by Julian Hammond Santander)

Gallatin prof Julian Cornell on ’70s and ’80s punk, feuding with rockers, depressive aesthetics

Joey Hung, Beauty & Style Editor Nov 24, 2021

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  I was born in 1966, so the first time I ever went to a club I was 13 — that would have been ’79. I was familiar...

The Decker Building at 33 Union Square West served as the Factorys location from 1968 to 1973. (Staff Photo by Manasa Gudavalli)

The parties, drugs and porn of 33 Union Square West

Andy Warhol: pop artist, filmmaker and apparently, baller.
Sabrina Choudhary, Culture Editor Nov 24, 2021

I know Andy Warhol from his pop art of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s Soup, which I saw at The Whitney Museum of American Art as a first-year. According to my unbearable class...

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