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Letter from the Editors
We strive to be a democratic publication, one whose direction is shaped by our contributors more than our editorial staff. When we floated the idea for a sex issue, we received overwhelming enthusiasm from the Nass community. So we went ahead with it. Previous mastheads had done this—in 1988 and 2006. But those were…
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Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love
“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”
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Why Am I Still a Statistic?
“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”
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PRINCEWATCH
Back from hiatus, PrinceWatch is here to keep campus journalism accountable. This week we’re punching up with this triumph of data analysis: “Top Universities released decisions. Admissions Instagram followers plunged.” (Published April 3rd, 2023) A melodramatic headline that captures the meaningful relationship between cause and effect. Not much to say about this…
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Letter from the Editors
Dear all, Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly. As the Nass celebrates its first year of full financial and editorial independence, we welcome…
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Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World
“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”
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Flightlessness and Being Mine: On Black-Jewish Non-Belonging At Princeton
“I have to sift the hate out of Judaism where I can, the hate I have for myself, the hate other people have for us, and the hate I identify in certain Jewish communities directed toward women or Palestinians or Black people.”
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Telescoping Echo
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. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “echo” (echo, echo). Lucia Brown At some point, the wrought iron fence that trapped the house disappeared, leaving behind a crumbling…
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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation
“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”
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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon
“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”