By Caleb Dunson ’24 Contributing Writer I request my absentee ballot weeks in advance, block an hour in my calendar to research down-ballot candidates, spend another hour picking the candidates I will support, and then place my ballot in the mail. I tune into election coverage, patiently wait for results to spill in, and watch…
Impractical Fantasies: A Meditation on Desire, Going Out, and the Ideal Party
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…
unauthorized syllabi: three
a biweekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor Seduction warning: gore, violence, sexual violence Before break, I was sitting in the Davenport library and saw a band of crows that were fighting over a flower that looked like a piece of bread. The strangeness of this fight holds no importance, but the fact that…
November Monthly Horoscopes
By: Tyler Watts Creative Director Happy solar returns to the Scorpios and Sagittarians! We are in the aftermath of the solar eclipse of the new moon in Scorpio, and there is a lunar eclipse during the full moon in Taurus in the middle of November. Jupiter is in Pisces creating a wave of ethereal optimism….
Kill The Cool Girl
By Anaiis Rios-Kasoga ’25 Editor-In-Chief You never get angry that he gives half while you give whole. You never miss out. You never skip meals, at least not when he’s looking. You never say no. You laugh at everything he says. Your mouth is permanently frozen in that unassuming yes/no smile. You live on his…