What does the pandemic mean for Paris’ houseless population? Mary reflects on her time volunteering with Serve the City Paris.
The Birth of an Inclusive, Female Led Mosque in Paris
Bahloul creates a space in Paris that stands for the inclusive and tolerant Islam that she believes in
Taiwan on Film
Memories on Film: Taiwan’s Complex History Seen Through the Lens of a Disposable Camera
Black Lives Matter in Japan
In Japan, where a myth of racial homogeneity persists, protesters struggle to draw support from a wider Japanese audience.
How are AUP Students Feeling About Returning to Campus?
Students return to campus from across the world. The Hibou editors interviewed a number of students, wanting to know how they are feeling. Do you feel safe? What are your concerns for the future?
"A Historically Large Field": Democratic Primaries 2020
Is it unusual to have this many candidates running?
Minority Representation & Faculty Diversity at AUP
AUP has significant ways to go in diversifying faculty and ensuring adequate representation on both ethnic and cultural levels.
It’s Hard to Say “I Love You” - an open love letter
The way your hand slips into mine feels as though god herself moulded our fingers just so they could interlock. When you’re with me, the mess in my mind seems surmountable and the loud chaos of the outside world softens, even if just for a moment.
Printemps 19
I want to know
is this gilt or gold, what flickering bridges
hold us up beneath.
“That Fierce Light Which Beats Upon a Throne”: Why Is the Political Culture at AUP Atrophying?
Every successful student government depends on consistent and widespread student engagement. It is impossible to effectively advocate for one’s constituents if there is no communication about what their needs and preferences are.
Can China Have a #MeToo?: Limitations of the Movement Under China’s Authoritarian Patriarchy
Without the ability to publically challenge the government in China, it is extremely difficult to say if #MeToo can become something more than a clever hashtag meant to circumvent censors. What matters is the recognition that the problem is systemic, present and will not disappear without examining the troubled dynamics of power.
The White Terror
As for the families of victims, and for many, many Taiwanese, Chiang Kai-shek enacted terror upon Taiwan, and his image cannot be reconciled as that of a divisive hero. He was a dictator, and whatever good he accomplished was at the expense of far more wrongdoings.
Savory Boys Spit Out Sweet Coffee
And you left your shit here too
Your jacket, cigarette addiction, jazz and back rubs
These things don’t just dissolve
Back to Reality
Flit between day dreams and prickly reality
They wish vertigo upon themselves, just a couple more seconds in lush vanity
Untitled.
A powerful poem.
Paris, pompette.
La soirée se couche lentement, comme des bulles qui montent au sommet du champagne dans votre verre, et peint le ciel de rose et d’orange…
The Day the Oscars Died
The Academy Awards are a mess that can’t clean themselves up. Far from the glory days of Hollywood, the biggest news to come out of the Oscars in recent memory was when they incorrectly announced La La Land as the winner of Best Picture in 2017. With the awards already tainted by so much controversy, can they get back to where they were before?
Letter From the Editor
Let us be fair, well-balanced, and representative
A Modest Reflection on the Dampened Impulses of a Sometime-Revolutionary
Maybe we are the perfect school.
The So-Called Thot Audit
Men consume products from sex workers, but don’t recognize their work as legitimate.