This Issue Nine Sapphic Books I Read This Summer Goodbye Sapphic Summer. Hello Sapphic September! Jordan Coleman Identity, Pop Culture Lessons on Friendship Stay here. Take a walk and watch / our steps fall into synchrony like an old dance / we used to know better than our own names. Faith Leslie Poetry 7 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman I’m standing at the intersection of identity / Each piece of me yielding for another / But sometimes there’s a collision Simone Minor Poetry, Identity Finding Adventures Up Above My Opah is the old man from Up. Jackie Bond Relationships Walking Through Privilege There are many things that white students like me will never have to think about while attending a PWI. Cassie Dallas Advocacy Jewels Like many other pet owners who acquired a new pet too soon after losing one, I have had to grapple with the guilt of loving the new pet when mourni Lindsey Smith Relationships Ten Ways to Make Your Life Your Canvas Finding joy in spontaneous change has transformed my life. Letting go is freeing. Change is something to be embraced. Carley Frajda Wellbeing Run With Me Through College Pulling specific dates and times from my oft-used MapMyRun running app, I rework the statistics collected under “further data” into my own interpre Grace Traxler Wellbeing Navigating the Gray with Chanel Craft Tanner Chanel is a mother, activist, feminist, author, mentor, and Black woman who is interested in the gray areas of our society. Ella Powell Advocacy Letter from the Editor: Navigation and Direction What a fickle force change is! Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter PreviousNext Popular Letter from the Editor: Navigation and Direction What a fickle force change is! Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter Navigating the Gray with Chanel Craft Tanner Chanel is a mother, activist, feminist, author, mentor, and Black woman who is interested in the gray areas of our society. Ella Powell Advocacy Run With Me Through College Pulling specific dates and times from my oft-used MapMyRun running app, I rework the statistics collected under “further data” into my own interpre Grace Traxler Wellbeing Ten Ways to Make Your Life Your Canvas Finding joy in spontaneous change has transformed my life. Letting go is freeing. Change is something to be embraced. Carley Frajda Wellbeing Jewels Like many other pet owners who acquired a new pet too soon after losing one, I have had to grapple with the guilt of loving the new pet when mourni Lindsey Smith Relationships Walking Through Privilege There are many things that white students like me will never have to think about while attending a PWI. Cassie Dallas Advocacy Finding Adventures Up Above My Opah is the old man from Up. Jackie Bond Relationships 7 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman I’m standing at the intersection of identity / Each piece of me yielding for another / But sometimes there’s a collision Simone Minor Poetry, Identity Lessons on Friendship Stay here. Take a walk and watch / our steps fall into synchrony like an old dance / we used to know better than our own names. Faith Leslie Poetry Nine Sapphic Books I Read This Summer Goodbye Sapphic Summer. Hello Sapphic September! Jordan Coleman Identity, Pop Culture Let’s Talk About Title IX Eryn Rhodes Advocacy Join My Mom and Me for a Coffee We sit across from each other, hands wrapped around our warm lavender mochas—almost mirror images of each other. Ella Powell Relationships To Mercury I walk downstairs and you are not there. Susannah Baker Poetry We've Got Mail Dear Future Jordan, Do you remember when we discovered Percy Jackson? Jordan Coleman Identity I am Human and I was Here when sunlight hits foggy glass just right prints reveal themselves, oil smeared into smiling faces Lindsey Smith Poetry Letter from the Editor: Imprints She feels an unsettling rumbling in her chest before she feels the tremor beneath her feet. Jasmine Wang Editor's Letter What Happens in Vegas Should Stay in Vegas As fourth-year students, my friend and I wanted to celebrate our final spring break with a bang, so naturally, we took a spontaneous trip to Las Ve Cheyenne Butler Pop Culture Letter from the Editor: Idolatry Our issue opens with Cheyenne Butler’s piece “What Happens in Vegas Should Jasmine Wang Editor's Letter Favorite's Day: The Self-Care Day You Didn't Know You Needed Favorites day can happen however much you need it, and it can be whatever you want. Wear your favorite clothes, even if they don’t match. Cassie Dallas Wellbeing To My Middle School Idols Middle school, almost by definition, is not supposed to be a place where anyone thrives. Susannah Baker Identity, Relationships 5 Things I Love and Don’t Love about the K-pop Industry My K-pop origin story all began with a YouTube React video. Jordan Coleman Pop Culture In My Ideal Universe My body, mind, and soul are a solar system Made up of hundreds of moons, millions of asteroids, and a multitude of planets Caroline Silvera Poetry, Identity Oasis The sky is pale blue closer to the ragged spines of the outcroppings Mary Margaret Lea Poetry Dear Idleness, I freeze in place and then thaw. Thoughts trickle along in a spiral of longing aspiration. Ella Powell Wellbeing PreviousNext Hot Topic Iris MagazineSubscribe to the Iris Newsletter!* indicates requiredEmail Address *UVA students & colleagues: please use UVA computing ID here. I am Human and I was Here by Lindsey Smith Let’s Talk About Title IX by Eryn Rhodes The Root of My Mother by Jasmine Wang Miss Twenty-Something by Cheyenne Butler
