By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor Originally published on April 19, 2016. It’s easy to forget that celebrities are people, isn’t it? When we go to the grocery store, we see their faces splattered all over magazines with headlines that tell us all kinds of truths and lies about their lives. We get intimate peeks into their lives that are only sometimes authorized. They are the subject of conversation across […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor We are less than a month away from the end of the semester. If your semester has been at all like mine, you’re coming to the end of a stressful uphill battle that has taken a toll on your sleep and social life. The end is thankfully in sight. It may feel a bit soon to start thinking about the end of the semester. […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor I love social media and so much of what it allows me to do. My favorite celebrities are accessible to me in a way they previously were not and I’ve been able to, in some small way, emulate the celebrity experience myself by using social media to craft an image. I met my first boyfriend online and I’ve had the opportunity to reconnect with […]
By Joshua Morrison Other Side Drive Segment Producer Morrison: Here on “A Curriculum of Divas,” I, as you know, strive to give you the lowdown on gay icons and fandom. Last time I talked a bit about what makes a diva and why gay men are so attracted to them. I also touched a bit on how lavish and outsized diva worship tends to look, and today I’m […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor Recently, it was announced that the Tonya Harding story is set to become a film. This news has been a long time coming. When it comes to media scandals, there is the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan saga and there is everything else. The details are so surreal, so outrageous that it’s hard to believe a cinematic treatment took so long to come about. It tops […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor Each year, thousands of the brightest minds in tech-driven industries flock to Austin to attend SXSW Interactive. The experience is, by all accounts, an electrifying one. Speakers from all corners of the industry come to share their ideas, inspire audiences, network and party. Important things happen at SXSW Interactive. Nearly a decade ago, the conference served as an opportunity for Twitter to take off […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor In 2016, it seems like everybody has their own deep, dark corner of the internet that they crawl into after a long day. These enclaves each have their own unique features and their inhabitants are able to speak a specialized language that isn’t quite accessible to outsiders. We often find ourselves having to give vocabulary lessons to the uninitiated before we can tell them […]
By Joshua Morrison Other Side Drive Segment Producer Here on "A Curriculum of Divas" we’re going to be talking a lot about divas and their fans. But before we can really do that there’s a burning question we’ve got to answer: what is a diva? There isn’t just one answer to this question, and the answer you get depends on who you ask. Some would tell you that a diva […]
By Joshua Morrison Blog Content Contributor I’m writing today to provide a valuable perspective regarding the decision to pursue graduate education. My goal is to insert this perspective into the discourse that surrounds an incredibly important decision that is not to be made lightly. It is a perspective I wish had been part of the conversation when I was making that decision. As somebody who is currently working on their […]
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