a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor ✶✶✶ objet petit a, or, On Spirals and Spiralling I entered winter break with a list of concrete objectives: Leaving break, my objectives (that make perfect sense to me, and of which I will not explain), are less clear: Those are my Resolutions. Of course, when…
a biweekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor ✶✶✶ 1. The following will be written in twelve points. 2. I turned in an essay the other week, which my professor said was too fragmentary and that my arguments “needed more connection.” Readers should not be left confused after reading your papers; every point should…
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…
a biweekly column By Michelle Ampofo ’25 Managing Editor I’ve been feeling existential this week, which tends to happen when I’m worn out and sleep-deprived. It’s days like these when I begin to feel like my life is a means to an end. Like I’m stuck in the prelude. In waiting. And it makes me…
a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ’25 staff writer The purpose of this column is simple—to carve out a space for myself in The Void, to categorize my thoughts, to mindlessly ramble, and to connect to other Black women who relate and might (for whatever reason) be reading. When thinking of how I wanted to…