Returning from the Street: What did she say about you?
Perceived Aristocrat: She said I don’t seem like someone who would mingle with the poor.
Overheard outside Butler
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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 under the temple of thoughts I’ve built. I find myself in a canyon of…
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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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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 mom is working so hard On making this place beautiful. She is not here. …
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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 met before. My subject line: “Advice for a Graduate.” My goal: to gather the instructions…
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Below the Belt
A Nass writer details the struggles Muslim students face using university restroom facilities.