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Barbie Bubble: How Leaving Princeton For New York Took Me Off the Shelf

“Displays of public indecency jolted me more than I’d like to admit. Living in the city this summer, I felt I was experiencing patriarchy as I had as a little girl—as something new.”

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Lac de Sainte-Croix

Spontaneity escapes me, I swim in fear of unlikely tsunamis, or phantasmic beasts.   I swim with a raincoat on, protecting my words from the world.   My ears tinged with the muffled sounds of laughter.   My body quaking … Read More

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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism

“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”

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A Case for Disgust

“And yet, God introduces Adam and Eve. Around them, creatures dance and indulge and huddle and purge. Birds shit humans. Dying men fart birds. He treats euphoria and terror with the same technical perfection, blurring the line between a familiar Earth and an alien world”.

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The Children’s Book That Hurt Me Most: Three Experts Discuss

A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.

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Double Features to Do Instead of Barbie/Oppenheimer

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On the Aesthetic Life

The ugly process of forcing beauty.

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Godless

“The smell of age-old dust rushes towards you, as you look and imagine how many were forgiven for their trespasses. Against whom?”

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SEPARATION RITUALS

We are in the magic-room, as she is calling it. I write that down.   She is cute and funny, even now. But of course she is.   She calls it a sanctuary.  I write that down too.   My … Read More

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The Meaning of Life According to My Inbox

Recently, my email account has doubled as my journal. I can’t stop writing emails. Not the usual, 10-liner, meeting set-up emails, but lengthy, rambling, floods of words in which I entirely reveal my personal vulnerabilities to recipients I have never … Read More

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Below the Belt

A Nass writer details the struggles Muslim students face using university restroom facilities.

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Root Canal: Full Design

This week, the Nass looks deep into the construction of cavities, finding a world where the dance is improvisational and the restrooms are mindful.

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