This Issue Two Tank-Topped Gyopos There is a word that has been quietly haunting my every move, for my entire life. Alyssa Rim Interview, Identity, Personal Essay Ghosts of Fresno One fateful day, on eve of May, an ancient stage they found Bridgette Stands Poetry The Water's Warm, So Hop In: Love Letters to Adult Swim and Other Forms of Digital Strangeness CJ Ackerman-Garvin Personal Essay Queer Revival via Queer Revivals: Genderbent Casting in Musical Theater Many queer people are turning to theater as a source of comfort, camp, and community. Beck Jewell Personal Essay Good Girl, Rotting Teeth The trial never ceased, the heavy shackle tightens Madina Fayzieva Poetry Resham Firiri “She’ll be such an obedient girl,” his mother sighed dreamily. Ashley Gyawali Fiction Dress the Part: My Favorite Fall Transitional Pieces With the variety of fall activities to explore, there is an exciting pressure to dress the part as we transition into the slower, cooler months. Monet Gonda Pop Culture To the Little Mixed Girl in the Back of the Classroom You are not “too much” of one thing and “not enough” of another. Chasity Quarles Poetry, Identity How (Not?) to Do a Breakup Not so long ago, I received a phone call from my girlfriend, who informed me that she no longer saw us together. Geovanna Murphy Pop Culture, Personal Essay Tears Dry on Their Own The house had never been this quiet. Sydnee Mason Fiction Letter from the Editor Emily Frost Editor's Letter PreviousNext Popular Letter from the Editor Emily Frost Editor's Letter Tears Dry on Their Own The house had never been this quiet. Sydnee Mason Fiction How (Not?) to Do a Breakup Not so long ago, I received a phone call from my girlfriend, who informed me that she no longer saw us together. Geovanna Murphy Pop Culture, Personal Essay To the Little Mixed Girl in the Back of the Classroom You are not “too much” of one thing and “not enough” of another. Chasity Quarles Poetry, Identity Dress the Part: My Favorite Fall Transitional Pieces With the variety of fall activities to explore, there is an exciting pressure to dress the part as we transition into the slower, cooler months. Monet Gonda Pop Culture Resham Firiri “She’ll be such an obedient girl,” his mother sighed dreamily. Ashley Gyawali Fiction Good Girl, Rotting Teeth The trial never ceased, the heavy shackle tightens Madina Fayzieva Poetry Queer Revival via Queer Revivals: Genderbent Casting in Musical Theater Many queer people are turning to theater as a source of comfort, camp, and community. Beck Jewell Personal Essay The Water's Warm, So Hop In: Love Letters to Adult Swim and Other Forms of Digital Strangeness CJ Ackerman-Garvin Personal Essay Ghosts of Fresno One fateful day, on eve of May, an ancient stage they found Bridgette Stands Poetry Two Tank-Topped Gyopos There is a word that has been quietly haunting my every move, for my entire life. Alyssa Rim Interview, Identity, Personal Essay Letter from the Editor Emily Frost Editor's Letter My DELTARUNE Summers “(...You felt like, whatever you were, for just right now, it might be okay.)" Sydney McClellan Personal Essay Closed Mouths Don't Get Fed You can’t wait around for opportunities to find you because passively waiting is a losing game. Madina Fayzieva Personal Essay The Roads That Said No I used to believe that rejection meant I hadn’t worked hard enough or wasn’t good enough. Chasity Quarles Personal Essay Split-Ends In an effort to change and perhaps understand myself better, I have forced my hair to take the beating of my every identity crisis. Geovanna Murphy Personal Essay We Built the Homunculus Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, and every day it feels as though it’s only more everywhere. Bridgette Stands Personal Essay Lines and Underdogs An immortal dog shook her tail and bathed in an Indian Country river when the great-grandson of the Town Destroyer ambushed Jumonville Glen. Ashley Gyawali Fiction A Clouded Vision The others had not warned her about what to expect when she held life in her hands. CJ Ackerman-Garvin Fiction Creating The Melting Pot Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns to gold Andrea Santos Poetry wearing my natural hair healed my relationship with beauty My relationship with my hair was complicated, but it is for most Black women. Monet Gonda Personal Essay Employed/Housed/Alive We think, therefore we err. Beck Jewell Poetry A Nose for News I want to know what everyone else knows, or better yet what they don’t know, and what I can do with the information I collect. Alyssa Rim Personal Essay Dreamer: Fill-in-Poetry Oh, the places you have been. Simone Minor, Geovanna Murphy, CJ Ackerman-Garvin Poetry PreviousNext Hot Topic Iris MagazineSubscribe to the Iris Newsletter!* indicates requiredEmail Address *UVA students & colleagues: please use UVA computing ID here. Creating The Melting Pot by Andrea Santos Queer Revival via Queer Revivals: Genderbent Casting in Musical Theater by Beck Jewell Blue Balloons by CJ Ackerman-Garvin Are Migraines a Gift? by Emily Frost
