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The news site of Evanston Township High School's student newspaper

The Evanstonian

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer

By Quinn Hughes
Vetements and capitalist abstraction

Vetements and capitalist abstraction

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer February 22, 2021

In the middle of the 20th century, capitalism found itself in a transition as it transformed into a version of itself that attempted to be physically identical to, but materially different from, the world...

We Got It! Part III: Riot in G Major

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer January 31, 2020

“In the interest of imagining what exists, there is an image of Michael Brown we must refuse in favor of another image we don’t have. One is a lie, the other unavailable. If we refuse to show the image...

We Got It! Part II: The Treachery of Images

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer December 13, 2019

A note from the author This article contains vivid imagery regarding depictions of Blackness and anti-black violence. I choose images in this article as a method of thinking with, and thinking through...

Photos from Atlantic Albums, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, N.W.A., Solange, World History Archive, Wu-Tang Clan, CC Media

We Got It! Part I: Real n— don’t die

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer August 21, 2019

Real n— don't die But they still want to try To kill a n----   like me but motherf-' real n----   don't die! - Eazy E What is dying? What is n----   dying? What is the sight of, sound...

Photos courtesy of  Aaron Carney and the Library of Congress.

On the Intimacies of Failure

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer March 22, 2019

Content Warning: This article deeply discuss themes surrounding anti-Blackness within the United States. It also graphically describes the murder of Emmett Till. Reader discretion is advised. In the...

Colonial Algebra

Colonial Algebra

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer November 12, 2018

*Content warning: This article talks in-depth about genocide, homocide, sexual violence and suicide. Please read at your own discretion. The business of transforming a human being into an object is...

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Consumptions of Blackness in Academic Spaces

Quinn Hughes, Staff Writer October 2, 2018

With an increasingly diversifying curriculum in school districts across the country, black and brown authors are appearing on more class reading lists than ever before -- James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates,...

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