On self-respect: The rough, the lovely
Alexander Hong/Senior Staff
I’m a third-year student here at UC Berkeley. My college years have not gone as I thought they would.
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Mary had a little identity crisis
Worm memories
I will spend the rest of the year trying and failing to be Mary Oliver.
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Negotiating Didion
Kind of chaos
You can see why Joan Didion is so well known for her nonfiction. She takes a political event and transforms it, dresses it up, takes it out to lunch and then deconstructs it.
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Better apocalypses
Kind of chaos
I have been considering the microphysics of apocalypses. Not blazing lights and the pale horse of Judgement Day, but smaller devastations.
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The summer of magical thinking: A personal essay
The summer gave me a glimpse of what a balanced, healthy mental life can look like, and I do not want to forget its taste.
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Aurora Theatre Company brings Joan Didion back to Berkeley in ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’
Starring veteran theater actress Stacy Ross and featuring a script written by Didion herself, the interpretation solidly personifies Didion’s prose.
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How to make the most of your free time this summer
If you’re in Berkeley this summer, it’s time to take advantage of everything the Bay Area has to offer — seize the opportunity to make some memories.
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Arthur Jafa exhibits whiteness at BAMPFA
'What white people saturated with Blackness look like'
Situated in BAMPFA’s Matrix 272 room, filmmaker Arthur Jafa’s latest exhibition, “The White Album,” turns his lens to whiteness. Following acclaim for his seven-and-a-half minute video “Love is The Message, The Message is Death” (2016), Jafa has taken Black aesthetics to task on white identity. “The White Album,” commissioned for
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Graduating? Submit to the Daily Cal’s ‘Goodbye to All That’ essay contest
DEADLINE EXTENDED: We want to know about the beginnings and the ends. Tell us what you’ve learned, what you’ve loved and why — or if — you’re ready to say goodbye to all that.
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Self-expression at UC Berkeley: En vogue or dead?
BARE Magazine promises continued reinvention, following the footsteps of Joan Didion
Fashion as a mode of self-expression has always been a powerful dynamic, and one that has deep historical roots at UC Berkeley.
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