Paste magazine | Oct. 2019
Paste magazine | Sept. 2019
PASTE MAGAZINE | AUG. 2019
The inherently problematic nature of Trump’s statement is easier to pinpoint than Biden’s, but the underlying issue with both men’s finger-pointing is the same: both are attempting to distance themselves from the actual root cause of the shootings, which is not just white supremacy, but its slippery sister, white innocence.
PASTE MAGAZINE | JAN. 2019
That the commercial has succeeded in sparking a debate is undeniable. Gillette is probably seeing a resurgence in Google search statistics that it hasn’t seen since it debuted its Mach 3 razors back in the late 90s.
But the polarizing nature of the commercial tugs at a bigger question, one that extends beyond identity politics: is it, and should it be, the responsibility of brands like Gillette to take a political stand in an age of commodity activism? And what distinguishes a “successful” campaign from one that’s DOA? Does it have to do with the audience the ad is trying to reach, the message the brand is trying to deliver, the product being advertised, or just the general mood of the moment?
REFINERY29 | JULY 2018
ROLLING STONE | MARCH 2018
Stoneman Douglas students are partnering with nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety to organize an even larger “March for Our Lives” march on Washington on March 24th. (They also, memorably, delivered impassioned speeches to lawmakers in Tallahassee, Florida, just one week after several of their classmates were gunned down).
By contrast, in the four weeks since the February 14th massacre, adults have been tepid about enacting policy changes surrounding gun control to promote school safety, even as the Parkland shooting has now been recognized as one of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history. As students – many of whom are still too young to vote – have taken action, their grown-up counterparts have allowed partisan politics to stymie progress.
