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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

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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

clocks on starry background

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

Red ink pen

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

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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

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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

Red ink pen

Monday grips a pen
Neurotic scribbles fill a blank page

Jasmine Wang

clocks on starry background

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

oranges on blue background

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

signs

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

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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

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Let me tell you a story. A story that I wish I’d asked for earlier in life.

Hailey Robbins

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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

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4 p.m. January 21st. An unassuming, relatively normal Saturday afternoon. The day I finally decided to cut off all my hair. 

Miriella Jiffar

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What do straight cisgender people want?

Kiki McLaughlin

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Oh, how I love female camaraderie.

Jasmine Wang

rosey swirl pattern

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

Bailey Middleton

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

Andi Sink

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You just are, no need to play a part

Names and Pronouns and Sexuality

Can change as easily as the seasons 

Linlin Wu

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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

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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

lollipop

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

Hailey Robbins

pink flowers

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

Jasmine Wang

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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

Red Stiletto

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

hand on pink background

Have you ever been lit on fire? I have. Seven times precisely.

Bailey Middleton

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It is my firm belief that all writing is, at its core, about community.

Andi Sink

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