Our Angry Vaginas
For as long as women feel weird talking about their periods, The Vagina Monologues will still be relevant. I hope it won’t continue to be. For as long as there is violence against women, the Vagina Monologues will still be relevant.
Frat Boys, Feminism, and Vaginas
I heard this from someone who’d heard it from one of the directors of this year’s production of The Vagina Monologues here at Princeton. Intrigued by the pairing of frat boys and vaginas (in monologue form), I reached out to this year’s directors, Azza Cohen ’16 and Olivia Robbins ’16, to get the full story of what happened at Penn and to see if anything similar was happening at Princeton.
Best Picture
They screened Oscar pictures in the smallest, oldest theater with its carved wooden balcony, velvet curtains, a stage pockmarked by dancers’ feet.
Conclusion
Here’s to the rubble: starlight starts to grow quietly. The world comes to chaos so quietly. Gravity promised to give up for a minute if we told it the things we know, quietly, so we let foggy breath bleed into cold air and excuses ring frantic, though quietly. Today, a river we’ve […]
What Do You Do Right After?
After a sexual assault, a writer considers how to tell her story.
Genetic Drift
In Arkansas, five thousand blackbirds fall on New Year’s Eve, pepper kernels crunching up pavement. The street-sweeper parks and stares. Does not know who to call. The corpses are cleared but they keep missing spots, like when mother paid me to pluck out her grays—celestial casualties left for the neighbor boy to shovel away. I […]
Interview with Phil Klay
The author of Redeployment and former member of the Marine Corps talks with the Nassau Weekly about war, narrative, and questions of empathy.
A Not-Sonnet
Chamomile tea gets me off More than getting me off does See also: girls laughing at my jokes & 90s video games Can we go back to your place? Sure, but only if you’re down To smoke dope & listen to every Weezer album Chronologically. We’re all just monkeys with habits But I’m […]
Political Allergies
Spring semester means cheap beer, class treachery, and primary elections.
Telling Lives
Roads, public libraries, and a respectful and helpful police force are all key, helpful features of a healthy state–and this is generally how the middle class experiences things. The government, however, has a more invasive, regulatory presence in the lives of people who lack power.
Telescoping Fear
We asked our stable of unstable writers to reflect on fear — personal, conceptual, metaphysical. They started with 300 words and narrowed focus and word count, by halves.