Vodka image from Marcel Strauss on Unsplash

Annie Ross, “Twisted”

Catherine Lee

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Pop culture in the mid-20th century included Playboy magazine, the one men claimed they bought to read the articles, not to “appreciate” the model spreadeagled in the centerfold. Published by Hugh Hefner, the rag doubled-down on an image of women’s role that the Second Wave of feminism of the 1970s and 1980s labored to correct. Hefner’s successful print empire expanded into major cities with Playboy Clubs, styled not as brothels but as extensions of…

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Catherine Lee

creates collaborative educational media. Lee explores social change activism and percussive jazz by performing with improvising musicians “on poem” or solo.