The Gazelle
Dec 1, 2025
Mariam Haroun
The skater girl doesn’t skate. The punk doesn’t rage. Identity now comes prepackaged, flattened into moodboards, starter packs, and TikTok’s endless “-core” suffixes. We’ve learned how to look like everything except ourselves.
Mayada Abuhaleeqa
Brands are deciding to engage with female audiences by creating pacified, girlified versions of their original products. It is backfiring immensely.
Chadi Saadoun
Our cultural obsession with Frankenstein matters now more than ever, as Silicon Valley’s elites move from building apps to attempting to reengineer human existence itself.
Batool Al Tameemi
Stepping into a C2 elevator feels less like entering a quiet campus space and more like being swallowed by a wall of competing announcements.
Yana Peeva
Is the change of artistic direction at Vogue a symptom of a larger problem of loss of aesthetics and creativity?
Gen Z students are often described as unmotivated. But those judgments overlook the world we actually grew up in.
Zeinab Helal
The Ordinary’s “Periodic Fable” mocked skincare jargon and exposed how consumers often mistake scientific-sounding language for real results, bolstering the brand’s push for ingredient-level clarity.
The Grammy 2026 nominations reflect mostly audience scores rather than music critic opinions. Is the institution chasing ratings by pitting only the hot 100 against each other?
Isabel Ortega
This Halloween, the real monsters weren’t in costumes but in masks - federal agents firing tear gas and dragging people from their homes. As ICE raids escalate, America faces a new ritual: fear as a national holiday.
Marija Janeva
Can something as quotidian as a concert worsen the political relations between two Balkan states? A Macedonian and a Bulgarian walk into a Gazelle article and discuss.
As an arts student, how do we cope with the constant dismissiveness and underrepresentation in a STEM and finance dominated university?
Sabria Dizon
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Once a motto for saving the planet, now apparently the blueprint for the modern film industry.
AI goes rogue. Inflation rises. The climate burns. No talk of World War III. This is fine. This is totally fine.
Andreja Zivkovic
It is all crumbling before my eyes. I graduate in a semester, and it feels like nothing is put together. But it is fine.
Anna Lipiec
Using AI may feel efficient, but research shows it’s slowing our brains. Is this a sacrifice we are comfortable making?
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