By: Emily Miller Dearest Mom, I want to know why you have not been happy. I want to know why you don’t follow your dreams. You sacrifice everything you have ever wanted for the satisfaction of knowing your kids will have lived their best lives. We appreciate everything you have done for us, but it’s…Continue Reading Dear Mom
By: Maggi Reedel The Stonewall Riots and Social Solidarity Among the Gay Community The events that occurred outside of the Stonewall Inn in 1969 hold a sort of mythic quality caused by collective effervescence and uncertainty; it is still debated, fifty years later, what actually sparked the initial riot. While it is still contested…Continue Reading Stonewall Riots and Solidarity
By: Joanna Messineo Darkness is Fear The light clicks off and you’re all alone in the room. Trust me, there are no monsters here, Mom had promised, but that was easier to believe when the light from the hall had seeped into all the corners of your room. Now, those same corners are blanketed…Continue Reading Thoughts on Darkness
By: Grace Shelton I know I should eat lunch. The skinny girls walking around campus probably still eat lunch. I haven’t eaten since four o’clock yesterday, nothing more than some tofu and rice; it makes sense to have another meal now and then dinner again at four o’clock today. Or maybe I should save that…Continue Reading Angeles
By: Lexie Pellegrin I’d grown accustomed to the sound of muffled yelling at a very young age; through three layers of My Little Pony coloring pages and a thick blanket strategically tacked to the hallway entrance leading to my bedroom, I could just barely make out some of the lethargic words that launched from Rod’s mouth. Something about a whole bench, a…Continue Reading We’re Okay
By: Liam Sheahan In December of 1849 eviction finally reached Brian Connor of Kilrush, Ireland. He owed no debts and had farmed the sliver of land on his landlord’s property for years, carving an existence from borrowed land in hopes of someday finding his own. But the Quarter-Acre Clause of Britain’s Parliament gave his landlord…Continue Reading Land As a Weapon