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Possibility–was born when the sky cried the night at 11:02 pm on August 22nd, 2022 on Old Campus

Posted on April 7, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Possibility—was born when the sky criedthe night at 11:02 pm on August 22nd, 2022on Old Campus. The sky, like a scar in theuniverse, sobbed so hard that the drops hurtwhen they broke on my skin. I looked downat my Converse, once light but now darkblue, at my heavied brown skirt, soaking…

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Shame—was born at 9:48 am on September
22nd, 2022, in a dusty classroom on York
Street full of Viet kids who can’t speak their
own language.

Posted on April 7, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Shame—was born at 9:48 am on September22nd, 2022, in a dusty classroom on YorkStreet full of Viet kids who can’t speak theirown language. Shame was born at the samemoment that language died a confused deathin Lucy Ton That’s mouth, strangled by hernoose of a tongue. Learning language is likebecoming a child…

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The Devastation Genealogy

Posted on April 7, 2023December 4, 2023 by Edwin Zishiri

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…

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DOWN Reads

Posted on March 11, 2023April 9, 2023 by Chidima Anekwe

This week features recommendations from Chidima Anekwe ’24, our wonderful Co-Editor-in-Chief. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur If you’ve given up on appealing to moral sense…One of the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists,” Assata Shakur writes of her personal history and her rise as a political activist with ties to the Black Panther Party and the…

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Fighting The Climate Crisis Requires Dismantling Capitalism

Posted on March 10, 2023December 4, 2023 by Sebastian Ward

By Sebastian Ward ’26 “Our world is dying,” or any variation of the phrase, perfectly characterizes the reformist nature of the current climate change movement, and can also offer insight as to why it has been unsuccessful. Our world is not dying, our world is being killed. The people with the blood on their hands…

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