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“bloom,” not “bluhm”
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@barnardcollege🐻@columbia ‘27 | @royalacademyofdramaticart 🤍

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Our new hosts are here! Meet Lira and Ava, our two newest members of the CU Tonight team ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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a few clips from a short film I did this winter:)
Virginaphobia with The 1 Train Is Delayed
you can watch the full short on YouTube!

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meet the eboard for the 2026-2027 season!! we can’t wait to see you at our meeting tomorrow…

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TW ⚠️FLASHING LIGHTS⚠️

Dance in the Dark – Music by Lady Gaga

Part raw documentary and part stylized theatrics, this short experimental film captures a fragment of the emotional process, tension, release, and exploration of what it means to be a woman today.

For me, this was a film that was challenging but extremely fulfilling on a technical level, but especially on a personal level.

Defining femininity for me proved to be a big challenge at the beginning. I wanted to capture a feeling that has been with me for a while, but I wasn’t quite sure how to express it. Around that time, I was doing a deep dive into some of Lady Gaga’s lesser-known music and came across this incredible song I had never heard before – “Dance in the Dark.” It became one of those songs you listen to over and over again until you’re sick of it. Except, for some reason, I never was.

It was the kind of song that tested my limits of understanding and emotion, juxtaposing eroticism and lust with darkness and pain. Something we all view as fun or exciting within the context of beauty (pretty face, pretty life, right?) may not match what is truly happening underneath. Beauty, pleasure, and providing emotional ease are so strongly associated with how a woman is expected to present herself, and Lady Gaga is somehow able to twist these expectations into a song that expresses a feeling I’ve had throughout my short adult life – the feeling that I, and many of the female-identifying peers I’ve had the privilege of knowing, are stuck within a constructed facade of who we should be, in order to mask complex human suffering.

Lady Gaga’s choices in this piece of music capture this paradox very well, and I wanted to explore it further by bringing my own truth to her song and sharing that process with the wonderful actors you see in this film.

I encourage you to focus on our faces, the stories they tell, and the way we move. Perhaps you will find your own source of liberation, just as I did while making this film. Above all, I learned from this project that I wasn’t alone in what I felt.

#ladygaga #studentfilm #mentalhealth #adobe #columbiauniversity

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Shots for @grace.m.zhou 🎀

@norasirila @alateblumer @eemmabarker

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WORDPLAY 2026 💐

NOMADS presented cuts from work by Ella Britton (BC ‘27), Sean P. Daley (GS ‘27), Frankie Fidler (CC ‘28), and Eric Butler (CC ‘26) at Barnard College on May 2, 2026. The pieces were directed by Sebastian Bader (CC ‘26), Mamie Rushkoff (BC ‘27), Karen Awaida (CC ‘29), and Clara Noggle (CC ‘28). Wordplay Spring 2026 was coordinated by Yahney-Marie Sangaré (CC ‘28). We thank you for coming and supporting! Keep an eye out—mainstage and Wordplay submissions for 2026–2027 will be open soon.

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“Listen. There’s a story that has to be told. We who’ve come here today have come here for this. Listen.”
- Nurse🤍 November 2024

I love Mikayla, she’s a baddie
I love these girls, they’re all baddies
I love Medea, she’s a baddie.

« Medea » by Ben Powers
Directed by @officialmikaylabenson (also the 📸)

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Meet our Mary, played by the wonderful Ava! Mary is innocent as a rose and probably smells like one too. More than anything, she’s ready to become a woman!

Can’t wait to see Ava’s face on the big screen? Donate at the link in bio to support the creation of Virginaphobia! 💋🙏

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Something is happening…

Donate at the link in bio if you would like to see ☺️

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Behind the scenes shots from the set of “Religiosity.”

Director: Pablo Molano
Writer: Harper Rosenberg
Producer: Lucrezia Adani
Cinematographer: Hendrix Hancock
Production Designer: Alexandra Churchland
Featuring: Ava Blum, Lucrezia Adani, and Kayden Kelly
Executive Producer: Annelise McDaniel
Studio: CLiP

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Climber’s hoodie challenge with @alateblumer !
Drank a whole bottle of milk before trying and it’s working 💪🏼#bouldering #hoodiechallenge #climbing

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Meet our SPRING 2026 eboard!
See you at tonight’s meeting 😎

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