Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.
Overheard on Firestone A Floor
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Love in the Orange Bubble
“I scribbled a question on my scrap of paper and tossed it into the designated baseball hat: Can you tell us a little about hookups and relationships at school?”
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The Nass Recommends!
A ream of recommendations from the Nass’ mind to yours.
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Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Firestone Library Princeton, NJ
“When Women Look at Men / 8 Million Women Want / Women’s Rights”
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And It Was Love
“On the temple of your ivory bone and porcelain skin / I offered muscle and combustion / Meager morsels, for the moment,”
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We Who Yearn for Spring
“Our trembles and tears are made bright. Dancing across / our cheeks blushing and buzzing with the blossoming weather. / Possibility is today. Happiness is now. The inhale, the exhale.
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Telescoping Youth
Memories may fade as distance grows wider between ourselves and our young selves, but one thing remains constant: if we dig down deep into the recesses of our experiences, hold light up to the seeds of our current moment, brush off the dust, we might find something worth writing about.
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Life After Life on Spotify
“No one thinks of Spotify as a means to immortality. But so long as the platform exists, a sort of permanence is granted. Our long finished playlists will become fuel for Discover Weekly long after we’re gone. We become eternal tastemakers, unconsciously curating mixtapes for future listeners.”
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PERIODPALOOZA
The politics of periods and how two students are reframing our conceptions of menstruation through social justice.
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Banning the Box
Inside the coalition aiming to eliminate Princeton University’s questioning of applicants’ criminal histories, and the broader decarceration movement.
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15 March: La femme qui s’appelait Brute et savait observer les ambassadeurs
They say she wears a mask that could launch a thousand ships and that with the purse of her lips, the white-gloved hands she uses to light thin, pretty cigarettes and drink Manhattans that she would launch them.
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The Bees Are Trapped
Nicki Minaj, where are the bees? The bees are not in the trap— They are trapped in air that refuses to be their home.
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The New Jersey Border
How the town of Princeton and other New Jersey cities just shy of sanctuary status negotiate safety for undocumented immigrants.
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The 6, The 305, and What We Want From Charity
Unpacking the hubris of Drake’s newest experiment in rampant exhibitionism.
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On Being TOO BIG for old spaces
How to negotiate a home in spaces overcrowded by nostalgia for the days before you left.