Fluffing Season

October 16, 2016

Make Princeton Great Again

Election season comes to Nassau Street.

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My Bowl Cut

Reflections on hair, style, and Asian American identity.

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Celebrating Carmen Carrera

Talking celebrity and transgender identity.

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Margin of Fragility

Shaking fingers reach,
Barely hold,
Losing grip,

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Life of Karns

Lonely theology with the Prospect Ave preacher.

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A Brief and True History of Traffic Lights

How we came to live life in red, yellow, and green.

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When I Think About Tennis

Musings on the elegant game.

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8 Vignettes on Emotion

Trying to put the background noise on mute.

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Resurrecting Tay (Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter) in my father’s childhood home

Benadryl bites.

The whites of his eyes, half in the light.

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Dolores Part III

“Dolores sat and wept in pain until the early hours of the morning. With what strength she had after her shock, she dragged herself across the room, pulling herself through shattered glass from family portraits and the scattered contents of her nightstand drawers.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard at Standing Rock protest

Aspiring journalist: Hi, I’m a reporter for the Prince and I’m writing an article about the protest. Could you give me some quotes?

Overheard en route to the street

Gay sophomore girl: She could totally be gay. Her hips are, like, forward, you know?

Overheard off campus

Worldly sophomore: The sign says “Lingerie and more.” I’m guessing the more is dildos.

Overheard at EPS Corner

Radical feminist: Until I came to Princeton I thought all dads were terrible.

Overheard at MAE pregame

Upperclassman, beating his chest among a swarm of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering majors: We’re the most lit fucking major!

Overheard on the Street

Asian man, to friend: It’s neither heaven nor hell. It’s just Tower.

Overheard in Patton

Ex-Terran: We should all get tested for STDs together— wouldn’t that be a room bonding experience?
Later, Ex-Terran: Wait didn’t you get tested for STDs or something last year?
Chicagoan: No, I just thought I had AIDS.

Overheard on NJTransit

Frosh Valley Girl: I thought Newark was just a weird way of saying New York.

Overheard in HUM346 (In- troduction to Digital Humanities)

Woody Woo senior, definitively: Converting PDFs to Word is one of the biggest challenges that people face.

Overheard in Forbes Black Box

Student filled with wonderment at tale of limb breaking: I wish I had a broken bone.

Oveheard at Terrace

Caricature of a man: I got really into music once I learned how piracy worked.
Soon after, same man, dripping in hubris: I feel like I should have a whole page in Verbatim.

Overheard outside the Women’s Center

Princeton Students for Reproductive Justice officer applicant: They offered me a position on the abortion committee.

Overheard in Colonial

Math major senior working in finance next year: There are so many sellouts here that we had a sellout panel.

Overheard in HIS 448

Professor: The breakfast burrito, that magnificent imperialist thing, that appropriates multiple traditions and does justice to none

Overheard via iMessage

Woke male alum: ugh sorry that men r bad and also conditioned by patriarchal power structures to feel entitled to women’s bodies