Current Issue

Our latest issue has it all! From an interview with the Arriaga Sisters and Dominique Browning’s inspirational words, to some of our own memories of earlier Iris‘s and much more, this season’s issue is taking its title to heart by making sure to Go Where the Love Is!

Iris at the Inauguration

January 31, 2013 Current Issue

The day started early. My friend Leah had graciously offered the use of her apartment in the District so Sara, Lauren, and I would not have to worry about getting into the busy capital the morning of the Inauguration. However this meant that six people were crammed into a space usually reserved for two. We [...]

Resolving Our Resolutions: Diets

January 29, 2013 Current Issue

I know that many people resolve to get fit, to lose weight, to change how they look, and then to change some aspects of their lives with the New Year. I’m interested in why that is, so I had a conversation with Amy Chestnutt, coordinator of the Women’s Center Eating Disorders Education Initiative. She says [...]

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Embracing “The Female Conscience”: Iris Teams Up with VQR

January 28, 2013 Current Issue

Wednesday, February 6th, Iris and VQR team up to host a “Celebration of the Female Conscience” at OpenGrounds (next to the Women’s Center). We are celebrating the female creative mind with a panel featuring: Sandra Beasley, poet, author of Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl Delphine Schrank, journalist, VQR contributing editor Lisa Russ Spaar, poet, UVa professor of creative [...]

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Coming Home (?!?)

January 24, 2013 Current Issue

LINGERR: I went home, I conquered home, and then I came back… home. I think figuring out what home means is difficult; difficult because it changes frequently and completely, and is entirely dependent on what I’m categorizing as where I live. Is your home: 1. Where you live now?: in which case, my home is [...]

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Your Life 8 Months After Graduating College

January 24, 2013 Current Issue

You think of your job and you think of all the other people you know doing more interesting things with their lives. You feel guilty about griping when you know plenty of capable friends who are still unemployed. It could’ve been you. You deal with never seeing people you saw every day, and you’re consequently [...]

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Tackling the ‘Turkey Drop’

November 28, 2012 Current Issue

Holidays are notorious for breakups. When I was in college (when I say that I sound eerily old, but I really mean when I was in college less than two years ago, this still happens now), we rather callously called it the ‘Turkey Drop.’ I’m hoping many of you avoided this, but for those of [...]

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