Tyler Watts ’25 They say it’s going by fast. They say we just got here, and we’ll be on our way out soon enough. They can not believe that we are 20 and 21. Gosh, where did all that time go? I know where it has gone–not to say that this year deserves to be…
by Edwin Zishiri ’25 DADDY A small devastation is the sound that Daddy made when he put the cup down. He was always putting that brown cup down. That brown cup with the rotten, brown afterlife in it. That cup that he took with him to the park with the lavender flowers and big oak…
By Anaiis Rios-Kasoga ’25 Editor-In-Chief “Where did you go to high school?”A cream-colored face looks back expectantly as their question reverberates in the space between us. Their tone expects a certain answer and suddenly that space becomes a valley. I gaze across the cracked opening, paralyzed by the abyss at my feet. They appear characteristically…
By Nasser Eid ’25 “No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].” John McCain, 2008 “And still I see no changes, can’t a brother get a little peace? / There’s war in…
By Suraj Singareddy ’25 Managing Editor “Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” – José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopias When people look back on their…