They Will Always Be Losers: The Glory and Myth of the Chicago Cubs
By: Dominick Mayer On October 14th, 1908, the Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers by a score of 2 to 0 in Detroit’s Bennett Park to win the World Series […]
Category Archives: Personal
After the Marathon: What I Want You to Know
By: Lindsay Popper Today was a muted, gentle, weird, painful, confusing, hopeful, exhausting, beautiful, hard day. Classes still happened at my seminary, a mile away from the bombing, and no […]
Give Your Heart A Break: Lady Pop Songs To Move You Through Breakup Grief
By: Mar Curran Internet, my love of lady pop artists is well known. I would venture to say I am fairly well versed in how teenage girls are taught they […]
Just Wanting to Be: Now Telling My Story
By: Ange Concepion Author’s Note: Trigger warning. This was performed at Take Back the Night. If you have been sexually assaulted, or know someone who has, know that there are […]
In the Pauses, Finding Strength: A Reflection on “Queering Consent”
By: Patrick Gill There is a cadence to survival stories. A rhythm often matched by facial movements. The face often veers to the right of the person being told the […]
Memories of Violence: Lightening up the bruises; Or the last time my father beat me
by: Randall Jenson This April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As a survivor of both physical and sexual violence, I feel compelled to share some of my […]
Things We Said To Pass Time
by: Sophie Turton “You have indecisive eyes”, I said. Sometimes green, other times hazelnut brown, they were intriguing, often misleading. I never saw them cry, even when the mountain toppled […]
What I Learned By Simply Taking a Break (From Writing)
by: Derrick Clifton They say if you love something, let it go; if it comes back it’s yours. Now, I don’t believe in all fluffy adages like these, since they […]
The Anti-Dread: Preparing, A Person of Character
by: John Daniel Gore Preparing to be center-stage is overwhelming. Lives are punctuated with spotlight moments of different hues, like giving a career-making presentation or, contrarily, eulogizing a beloved relative. […]
City Living: A Short Stop to See and Feel Others
by: Patrick Gill I didn’t want to play Legos with him. It wasn’t because we weren’t friends, well Ryan was kind of a nerd; but I was kind of a […]
