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Jett Kwong, 'Jasmine'

Friday, May 27, 2022

For the singer and guzheng player, the jasmine flower represents the passage of another year.

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Bohan Phoenix, 'New York Made Me'

Monday, May 09, 2022

The Chinese-born rapper has spent the last decade cultivating a bicultural audience by deftly weaving between Mandarin and English.

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Priya Ragu, 'Illuminous'

Thursday, March 17, 2022

The new single from the Tamil-Swiss artist is an upbeat anthem filled with contagious joy.

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Hope Tala, 'Party Sickness'

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The song fluctuates between a background choir of voices and beats; it feels like we're there, sitting in conversation with friends and strangers, as the walls pulse.

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Polartropica, 'GIVE THEM HELL (Serial Killer Slayer)'

Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Here's a roaring anthem as we enter the Year of the Water Tiger.

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Raveena, 'Rush'

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Raveena invites us into a floating state of consciousness.

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Top global TikToks of 2021: Defiant Afghan singer, Kenya comic, walnut-cracking elbow

Saturday, January 08, 2022

What did the world watch on TikTok last year? We round up some favorite videos — including a mukbang ASMR Thai star (don't worry, we explain it) and a potato chip-crunching Kenyan comedian.

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Here's what bell hooks' friends and colleagues want you to remember about her

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Since hooks' passing on December 15, social media has flooded with reflections on her public impact as an author and scholar. Here, her friends remember what she was like in private.

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Harry Styles isn't the leader of a fashion revolution, but neither is Billy Porter

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Marginalized members of the LGBT community were pushing the binaries of gender fashion long before celebrities moved in.

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