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The Dictionary of Identities

“When the word ‘diversity’ enters the conversation, I am to be made an example and a representative…. It’s as if I cannot possibly be content simply existing”

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The Journey from Pornhub to OnlyFans… And Why it Matters

A Nass writer considers issues of feminism and labor compensation within the evolving landscape of the porn industry.

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Life Lessons from Mahler and Fungi

Two Nass writers reflect on the nature of beauty through myriad lenses.

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What I Remember of Philadelphia: An Incomplete, Random List

“On those evenings, I fancied myself a tortured artist, sipping a Coors Light and stewing in the majesty of my ideas. I even wrote some of them down.”

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The Opposite of Hunger is Still Hunger

“But you put me here in America— in rich, white, suburban America, where the people are bland and the food even more so. You put me here in this diner, and I hate you for it.”

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Empty Spaces

“Even though I said that I wanted to fill in all this empty space around me, I’ve also come to realize that I need some space to be empty.”

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Space Jam – Full Design

This week, the Nass meditates on home life, hears from Tracy K. Smith, and telescopes space.

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‘Different Tools for Enduring’: An interview with Tracy K. Smith

A Nass writer sits down with the United States Poet Laureate and Princeton Professor to discuss Blackness, the pandemic, and poetry.

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Telescoping Space

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”

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On Deciding Not To Live In A Literal Castle

A first-year student wrestles with the decision to stay at home in a semester with so many students on campus.

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Slanted Perspectives

“The sliver of sunlight, orange, on your curves / I could trace all day”

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Enfleshment

“If the body cares not for itself, / who would care for it? / What is the use / of wasted breath?”

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