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…
Shame—was born at 9:48 am on September
The Devastation Genealogy
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…
DOWN Reads
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…
Fighting The Climate Crisis Requires Dismantling Capitalism
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…
the class valley
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…