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February 28, 2016

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.

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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.

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Best Picture

They screened Oscar pictures in the smallest, oldest theater with its carved wooden balcony, velvet curtains, a stage pockmarked by dancers’ feet.

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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 … Read More

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What Do You Do Right After?

After a sexual assault, a writer considers how to tell her story.

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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 … Read More

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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.

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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 & … Read More

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Political Allergies

Spring semester means cheap beer, class treachery, and primary elections.

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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.

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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.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in the architecture building

Aging dean, to students: I know all the beers in the world.

Overheard in East Asian Library

Ivy Pi Phi, scrolling on Instagram: Oh, I didnt know she had a house in Monaco!

Overheard in Woolworth

Dumb frosh: Yuck Farvard, am I right?

Overheard Forbes Sunday brunch

Freshman girl: It wasn’t the making out that was a problem, it was letting him finger me in the TI stairwell while I was on my period.

Overheard on iMessage

Yung feminist: every day is a penis monologue!

Overheard on the Street

Drunk sophomore, walking out of Tower party: I live in Rocky. You live in Wilson, the gayest of gay dorms.

Overheard Bloomberg

Naive frosh: Do you ever smoke joints on campus?

Overheard Pyne

TI senior woman: Speaking of sad, this afternoon I spent a significant amount of time googling ‘Virginia Woolf suicide note.’

Overheard at Met Museum

Preppy boy: I had a nightmare last night.
Senior woman: About what?
Preppy: Jennifer Lawrence.

Overheard in Chicago bar

Woman in bathroom: They hate me in the Parlor Pizza.
Other woman: Why do they hate you?
Woman in bathroom: Who the fuck knows maybe cuz I vomited there

Overheard at UWS

Press Club member, pointing to Macy’s children’s ad, thirstily: How old are these girls?

Overheard in West Village

Beleaguered fratter: My Patagonia won’t fit under my Barbour.

Overheard in Olives

Intense-looking bald man, to Olives employee: No one would find the body.
Olives employee, murmuring in agreement: No one would find the body.

Overheard via iMessage

Sexually empowered senior woman: why do we love canadians so much? is it because we think they’re simple?
(later)
Ibid: i want to go on a fuck tour of the northwest

Overheard in Whitman theater

Theater girl: You think his laugh is weird? Try humping him in a coffin.

Overheard in New York

22-year-old woman: Men my age are terrible.
25-year-old man: I hate to break it to you, but men my age are also terrible.