By Olivia Charis ’25 Contributing Writer Fleeting shiny surface, but he still mesmerizes me I can see my dad’s reflection when I look at him He makes me want so many things I wonder how it would feel To salvage the possibility of all his potential To untwist all his nonsense into sense Imagine every…
Category: Voices
Home monologue
By Esha Ahktar ’25 Contributing Writer Of all the mornings we spent together, I most clearly remember the sunlight. Her pink and orange curtains seized the dawn sunshine and threw it across her bedroom, lighting up our faces as we procrastinated starting our days. I remember the stack of perfectly curated books from Verso and…
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…
red vines
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-in-Chief Random Disclaimer (Tyler the Creator style): “Red Vines” was written as a creative exercise in response to “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian, a short story published in the New Yorker that went viral a few years ago. My piece takes the exposition of the story and reorients it in the…
The Other Me
By Lula Talenfeld ‘ 25 Staff Writer/Events Director I used to share my sister’s room. Now, it is just hers and she’s about to turn 17, but the curtains are still the same. Ikea, blue, polka dots, sheerer than we expected so the black-out shades behind them are always pulled at least halfway down. Most…