Editors / Hatty Liu / Jenna Topan / Jessica Xiao / Olivia Zeydler

From the editor-in-chief of Speak! Issue 8.4

  We want to humbly, reverently and not-at-all conceitedly boast that Speak! is a magazine on the rise. In the past year we’ve grown 30 pages bigger (bringing you literally weightier words) and 10 percent shinier (featuring your reflection on our cover page). Likewise, our staff has swelled by 20 percent its previous size (the desserts at … Continue reading

From the editor-in-chief of Speak! Issue 8.3 (Digital Rights)
Editors / Hatty Liu

From the editor-in-chief of Speak! Issue 8.3 (Digital Rights)

We’ve launched the Web edition of Speak! with an issue on digital rights. This sounds like an irrepressibly twee idea. Adding to that the ad nauseum press coverage that social media has received for its role in 2011’s rocky events…our idea starts to seem like a gimmick at best, clever posturing at worst. I’d call it a happy … Continue reading