This Issue “Anne Spencer: I Am Here!”: An Interview with Tessa Berman In our wide-ranging conversation, we discuss our favorite Spencer poetry and scholarship, Tessa’s path to becoming involved in the exhibition, and Cassie Dallas Advocacy Top Five Questions/Concerns/Insatiable Fears I Have About Leaving College 1. What am I going to do after I graduate? Jackie Bond Identity Ghost, Martyr, Traitor, Wife: Legacies of Women in Espionage What is a legacy? How do we choose to remember? Who do we choose to remember? Jordan Coleman Advocacy SOLD. zillow.com…never mind…close tab. zillow.com…close tab. zillow.com search: [my childhood home] Carley Frajda Relationships For My Dad My cat died on Father’s Day, so I wasn’t able to get my dad a gift. Lindsey Smith Relationships Interlaced Legacy What is legacy? / What someone leaves behind; / Difficult to vocalize / it is often unseen, / Unheard, / or even unknown. Simone Minor Poetry The Library 18 year olds everywhere, in every decade, all the same. Grace Traxler Fiction Silence It is an odd grief, missing something bound to return Bailey Middleton Poetry Pop is Back with Charli, Chappell and Carpenter "Poptimism" through the lens of 3 authentic pop queens—Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter. Ella Powell Pop Culture In Defense of Black Rural America There are no street lights. No crosswalks nor stoplights to mark your location. Faith Leslie Identity Letter from the Editor: Legacy What story will I write, and who might tell mine? Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter PreviousNext Popular Letter from the Editor: Legacy What story will I write, and who might tell mine? Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter In Defense of Black Rural America There are no street lights. No crosswalks nor stoplights to mark your location. Faith Leslie Identity Pop is Back with Charli, Chappell and Carpenter "Poptimism" through the lens of 3 authentic pop queens—Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter. Ella Powell Pop Culture Silence It is an odd grief, missing something bound to return Bailey Middleton Poetry The Library 18 year olds everywhere, in every decade, all the same. Grace Traxler Fiction Interlaced Legacy What is legacy? / What someone leaves behind; / Difficult to vocalize / it is often unseen, / Unheard, / or even unknown. Simone Minor Poetry For My Dad My cat died on Father’s Day, so I wasn’t able to get my dad a gift. Lindsey Smith Relationships SOLD. zillow.com…never mind…close tab. zillow.com…close tab. zillow.com search: [my childhood home] Carley Frajda Relationships Ghost, Martyr, Traitor, Wife: Legacies of Women in Espionage What is a legacy? How do we choose to remember? Who do we choose to remember? Jordan Coleman Advocacy Top Five Questions/Concerns/Insatiable Fears I Have About Leaving College 1. What am I going to do after I graduate? Jackie Bond Identity “Anne Spencer: I Am Here!”: An Interview with Tessa Berman In our wide-ranging conversation, we discuss our favorite Spencer poetry and scholarship, Tessa’s path to becoming involved in the exhibition, and Cassie Dallas Advocacy 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 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
