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May 2025 Edition

Welcome to Shoeleather Magazine! We publish timely longform work by Honors students at NYU Journalism.

The Black Pill: How Incel Culture, Promoted by Alt-Right Influencers, Endangers Women

May 7, 2025 by Julia Diorio

Bobo — as I knew him, beatboxxx69 on Reddit — stood me up for our online interview. When he sent me another encrypted video link later that night, he followed up with “my bad. Can you join now? I think this chat will be really useful.” I was in my pajamas, but nonetheless spent an […]

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Dry Harvest: New York City’s Community Gardens Face a Perilous Future

May 7, 2025 by Naisha Roy

“I write this poem for all the poems from you I must leave unwritten. All the beginnings we will not stop seeking. Why, when there are such green beginnings yet to come, do they choose the gray end?”  Brian Vogel, a long-time visitor to Little Italy’s Elizabeth Street Garden, recited his ode “To a Garden […]

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Shall Make No Law: Polarized Campus Politics and the Illusion of Academic Freedom

May 7, 2025 by Isabella Jambrina

On a Saturday evening in March, Mahmoud Khalil and his wife, Noor Abdalla, went out for dinner. Abdalla, 28, is a Midwest-born dentist expecting her first child with Khalil, age 30, a Syrian-born Palestinian studying at Columbia University. The couple returned to their home on the university’s campus only to be met with agents from […]

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Hooked on a Feeling: The Blood, Pain, and Beauty of Hanging from Skin

May 7, 2025 by Tori Morales

The hooks are bigger in person. Four millimeters thick by three centimeters wide. I try to picture one passing through the flesh just above my knee, disappearing under my skin and emerging three centimeters away, and find I can’t. One hook lays on my left knee, point facing inward. Johnny Pearce, piercer and suspension facilitator, […]

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