As our first year of college is coming to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on redefining moments that help us make sense of where we have been, who we are now, and where we want to go. Identity and Humanity may be the official theme of this issue, but for this community of artists,…
Category: Issue VIII (2023)
Gamergate and The Dragon Gate Franchise: Defying the Everlasting Gamergate Culture
By Emma Millin As the world’s clashing values and cultures seep into the media that we all consume, online spaces included, it is worth noting the phenomena that repeatedly cycle through these spaces. Things like patriarchal values, racism, and homophobia have been present in many cultures for a very long time, and they inevitably find…
Where Knowledge is Found
By Isabelle McMahan Author Note In academia, it is highly considered that classic literature is the “peak” of writing, and is where modern writers should turn towards to learn from. Furthermore, some reading communities make it out that if you don’t read classic novels, you’re a “bad” reader who doesn’t have a diverse range of…
‘Ohana
By: Geoffrey Abrams I had to pee1. Cramped and profusely sweating, my bladder was pulsating to the rhythm of my heart. Minute by minute, breath by breath, the immense caprice to vacate my workstation and full-sprint from the back of the restaurant to the front, where the single stalled bathrooms were located, and relieve myself…
Car Centric Infrastructure, the Advent of Technology, and Its Impact on the Youth
By Vivian Swanson
Fatherhood And Friendship: A Short Memoir Through Music
By Rachel Charles My dad and I’s biweekly trip to Costco was something I held very close to my heart when I was growing up. It wasn’t the riveting act of grocery shopping that I looked forward to every two weeks, but the music that would play on the car ride there. My dad’s beat-up…
Funeral Planning
By Rachel Charles This was my first time seeing a dead body. It wasn’t much different looking than the dead bodies from those true crime shows–cold, blue-hued, and still. I think the stillness is what made me the most uncomfortable. It was a very distinct stillness, a stillness that can’t be imitated by someone on…
Let’s Not Be Dramatic Here
By Ava Selby The world is going to end in 4,015 days. If I read a headline like that, I might have an existential crisis and would hope most people would too. Climate scientists have predicted that the Earth’s population will have about 11 years to avoid irreversible damage from man-made carbon emissions (Neuman, 2021)….
Amber, Alabaster, or Orange: A Memoir in Color
By Julianna Tague My favorite color as a child was orange. There was a family down the street who had a gigantic white pine – nothing extraordinary in my home state of Michigan, but magnificent nonetheless to a three-year-old me – in their yard, and they’d wrap it in warm orange lights at Christmastime every…
Like Icarus, I Yearned For The Sky
By Vivian Swanson I have been alive for 6,994 days. I can’t even begin to think about that number, to conceptualize it, to think of a week and then several weeks and then months and then years, all of the numbers spiraling in my head. 6,994 days and yet as I sit here, it feels…