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In talking to my female-identifying peers, I’ve found that almost every one of them remembers a time when a man has said something so demeaning, se
Hailey Robbins

She loved going to markets and holding the fruit in her hand, feeling the tension of the skin and the pulp against her palm.
Kiki McLaughlin

After watching the Oscar-winning movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was intrigued by how the characters were able to jump throug
Bailey Middleton

Miriella Jiffar

Monday grips a pen
Neurotic scribbles fill a blank page
Jasmine Wang

When I took on the position of Editor here at Iris, I felt very hesitant to use phrases like “editorial vision” when referring to my goals
Andi Sink
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When I took on the position of Editor here at Iris, I felt very hesitant to use phrases like “editorial vision” when referring to my goals
Andi Sink
When I took on the position of Editor here at Iris, I felt very hesitant to use phrases like “editorial vision” when referring to my goals

Monday grips a pen
Neurotic scribbles fill a blank page
Jasmine Wang
Monday grips a pen
Neurotic scribbles fill a blank page

Miriella Jiffar

After watching the Oscar-winning movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was intrigued by how the characters were able to jump throug
Bailey Middleton
After watching the Oscar-winning movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was intrigued by how the characters were able to jump throug

She loved going to markets and holding the fruit in her hand, feeling the tension of the skin and the pulp against her palm.
Kiki McLaughlin
She loved going to markets and holding the fruit in her hand, feeling the tension of the skin and the pulp against her palm.

In talking to my female-identifying peers, I’ve found that almost every one of them remembers a time when a man has said something so demeaning, se
Hailey Robbins
In talking to my female-identifying peers, I’ve found that almost every one of them remembers a time when a man has said something so demeaning, se
As anyone who’s turned on the TV or opened twitter in the past 6 months knows, “gender” is the new buzzword, the new culture war.
Andi Sink
As anyone who’s turned on the TV or opened twitter in the past 6 months knows, “gender” is the new buzzword, the new culture war.
Let me tell you a story. A story that I wish I’d asked for earlier in life.
Hailey Robbins
Let me tell you a story. A story that I wish I’d asked for earlier in life.
She tells her friend she needs air, and on the patio of this popular college bar, her heart races. Her lungs feel on fire.
Eryn Rhodes
She tells her friend she needs air, and on the patio of this popular college bar, her heart races. Her lungs feel on fire.
4 p.m. January 21st. An unassuming, relatively normal Saturday afternoon. The day I finally decided to cut off all my hair.
Miriella Jiffar
4 p.m. January 21st. An unassuming, relatively normal Saturday afternoon. The day I finally decided to cut off all my hair.
What do straight cisgender people want?
Kiki McLaughlin
What do straight cisgender people want?

Oh, how I love female camaraderie.
Jasmine Wang
Oh, how I love female camaraderie.
Cheyenne Butler

I want to get a workout in today. Should I go to the gym?
Bailey Middleton
I want to get a workout in today. Should I go to the gym?

Compared to the fall, the spring season carries with it a palpable shift in tone.
Andi Sink
Compared to the fall, the spring season carries with it a palpable shift in tone.

You just are, no need to play a part
Names and Pronouns and Sexuality
Can change as easily as the seasons
You just are, no need to play a part
Names and Pronouns and Sexuality
Can change as easily as the seasons

The first Panic! At the Disco song I heard was, surprisingly, not “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” I was sitting in my childhood bedroom
Eryn Rhodes
The first Panic! At the Disco song I heard was, surprisingly, not “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” I was sitting in my childhood bedroom

My fluttering feet had splashed up into the air–suspending, if just for a moment–in that beautiful, blissful moment when an overwhelming sea of blu
Miriella Jiffar
My fluttering feet had splashed up into the air–suspending, if just for a moment–in that beautiful, blissful moment when an overwhelming sea of blu

One bite at a time
my mother says as it sits there
in my kitchen
blowing dish-soap bubbles
Hailey Robbins
One bite at a time
my mother says as it sits there
in my kitchen
blowing dish-soap bubbles

It’s January 27th today. Lunar New Year’s Eve.
Jasmine Wang
It’s January 27th today. Lunar New Year’s Eve.

Whenever I read, watch, or play different forms of post-apocalyptic fiction, I always end up wondering what I’d do if I were in these worlds, wheth
Kiki McLaughlin
Whenever I read, watch, or play different forms of post-apocalyptic fiction, I always end up wondering what I’d do if I were in these worlds, wheth

The streets– meaning an amalgamation of Tiktok, Twitter, Youtube, fashion websites and blogs– are predicting that the peplum dress you wore to your
Cheyenne Butler
The streets– meaning an amalgamation of Tiktok, Twitter, Youtube, fashion websites and blogs– are predicting that the peplum dress you wore to your

Have you ever been lit on fire? I have. Seven times precisely.
Bailey Middleton
Have you ever been lit on fire? I have. Seven times precisely.
It is my firm belief that all writing is, at its core, about community.
Andi Sink
It is my firm belief that all writing is, at its core, about community.
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