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...went up for a spike, revealing a strip of toned midriff. Bennett yelled something flattering in her direction. This caught the attention of Maya D. Simpson ’11, who was sitting a few rows away. Maya had short, choppy, jet-black hair, and wore a blood-red t-shirt. She turned to face Braddock, and from behind thick-rimmed glasses rolled her eyes incredulously. “I’m here to support my roommate,” she said, pointing at a gangly-looking girl who was sitting on the bench. “I don?...
...couldn’t even remember saying it,” Ulrich said at the Book Store event. “I had to look it up, and I thought it was really amusing, and I said, ‘Go ahead, just send me a ‘T-shirt!’ And she did. And she sent lots of other people T-shirts too.” MISBEHAVING MERCHANTSPretty soon, the phrase was culturally disseminated, worn by self-styled salt-of-the-earth types and casual feminists alike. Ulrich drew laughter from the audience when she described...
Growing up in the shadow of Brown University has some definitive advantages. For example, I was always aware of what ironic-message T-shirt was about to burst upon the waiting market well before it was released in stores. I got to see shirtless people jogging. And I knew what pot smelled like before I was 11.However, despite the fact that I went to high school directly across the street from some Brown tennis courts, I didn’t really investigate Brown culture until a couple of weeks ago.It was then that yours truly attended a dank party...
...positive?” a cheeky—or confused—freshman asked Julie Goswami ’08 of her new t-shirt. Soon the whole campus would realize that either a serious epidemic had flooded Harvard, or there was something else behind the 144 shirts emblazoned with the words “HIV Positive”. “The shirts originated in South Africa,” explained Tanuj D. Parikh ’09, chair of the South Asian Men’s Collective. “We wanted to bring them here because...
Taken as a whole, what is most irksome about this T-shirt movement is that the level of dialogue is so low. If an institution such as Harvard cannot be a bastion for innovative thinking in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and policy, then there is almost no hope for any other place. It’s up to us to escape the jargon and inaction that is ultimately tied to most “awareness-building” gimmicks. Otherwise, we’re wasting our time...