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The student news site of Sandy Spring Friends School

The Wildezine

The student news site of Sandy Spring Friends School

The Wildezine

Cameron Tollefson

Hi! My name is Cameron and I’m a senior. This is my third year writing for Wildezine and my second year as an editor. I’m mainly interested in how pop culture and politics intersect.

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Protesters demonstrate against Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster outside the US Capitol on January 24, 2023, in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The problem with Ticketmaster

Cameron Tollefson, Editor
June 1, 2023

In mid-November of 2022, millions of Taylor Swift fans attempted to buy tickets for her Eras tour through Ticketmaster, a website for buying and selling live event tickets, after the release of her album,...

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Cameron Tollefson, Editor
April 10, 2023

People enjoying Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. VIAVAL/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

Why Splash Mountain had to go

Cameron Tollefson
April 6, 2023

On January 23, 2023, Disney officially closed the ride Splash Mountain at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. According to the official Disneyland website, the Californian ride is still open, but there is...

Netflix's Dahmer and the exploitative nature of true crime

Netflix’s Dahmer and the exploitative nature of true crime

Cameron Tollefson
November 14, 2022

On September 21, 2022, Netflix released the show Dahmer--Monster; The Jeffrey Dahmer Story starring Evan Peters as the infamous American serial killer. Despite the lack of publicity before release, it...

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Disney and the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Cameron Tollefson
May 20, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557, a law that many activists have dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. The bill forbids public school teachers in Florida from teaching...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/holocaust-novel-maus-bestseller-after-tennessee-school-ban

Maus and America’s surge of book bannings

Cameron Tollefson, Editor in Training
April 27, 2022

Written by cartoonist Art Spigelman, Maus is one of the most famous graphic novels of all time. First released as comic strips, it was later traditionally published in two parts; Maus I: A Survivor’s...

Morning Consult illustration by Samantha Elbouez

The path to progress: Transgender athletes in the 2021 Olympics

Cameron Tollefson, Junior Editor
December 15, 2021

Athens, Greece, 1896. Nearly 1,500 years after the final Olympic games, 280 athletes from 12 different countries gathered together for the first modern-day revival of the ancient tradition. Since then,...

Norman Bates in Psycho (1960)

It’s Not About the Dress: A Brief History of Transphobia in Horror Movies

Cameron Tollefson, Staff Writer
April 25, 2021
"Media, and especially horror, is often a reflection of society’s fears at the time. These aren’t harmless movies that we can look back on simply to cringe at; these are very real and very damaging."
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