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Art by Kirsten Hemrich
April 17, 2019
This is it, Iris’s last issue for the 2018-2019 school year, and we could not have been happier to have spent the last several months sharing our thoughts, ideas, and passions with the Iris readership. For many of us, the closing of this year means the closing of our chapters at both Iris and at UVA. On one hand, we all love a good transition. We love the opportunity to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On the other hand, I’m
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
March 20, 2019
I love Spring as much as the next person. I love when it gets warmer and the days get longer. I love retiring my parka for a few months and opting for a lighter jacket that’s not nearly as heavy. I love that my car isn’t buried in the snow, and that my seasonal affective disorder has taken a hiatus. I love showing off my very pale, very translucent legs in my favorite tennis skort that I wear 5-6 times before washing. Do I play tennis? No. Is this hands-down the
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
February 26, 2019
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, echoed the sentiment of all of us when she said, “Personally, I love a good love story.” Ali McGraw melted our hearts when she told us, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” James Joyce had us utterly confused when he explained, “Love loves to love love.”
Regardless of the words, love is truly a universal
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
February 12, 2019
January has come and gone, February is upon us, and Iris is back with a new edition.
It’s truly a miracle we have already made it this far in 2019, and we’re only getting started. It’s time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished thus far. Some of us have held on to our resolutions, but most of us have already decided that 2020 will just have to be our year. And that’s really ok. Because being successful in absolutely every thing that we do is simply not possible on our journey
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
January 20, 2019
Welcome to a New Year! In January, we push ourselves to resolve new paths and fresh ways of doing things. This could mean anything, from going for a run every once in a while, to picking up our journals and meditating on each day. It could be reconnecting with an old friend, or finally getting yourself out of a toxic relationship that has been bringing you down for years. For me, this means a 7th attempt in just as many months to give up eating pizza in my clean
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
November 14, 2018
How did we get here? It’s already November, and we all know what that means: it’s time to think of what makes us thankful. Of course we are thankful for the obvious things: family, friends, our health, the continued success of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
And then there are those things that we really have to dig deep for, the
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
November 12, 2018
About a year ago, I started on a journey towards building a sustainable wardrobe. I wrote a final paper for my feminist theory class on how fast fashion retailers (specifically Zara) target the “neoliberal female subject.” I felt like these clothing companies were way too prevalent in my brain, and I
October 31, 2018
We are halfway through the semester, and for most of us, things are just as confusing as they were at the beginning. We’re still stressed, lost, overanalyzing every decision we made up to this point, regretting the choices that left us in spaces of uncertainty and doubt. But hey, that’s showbiz baby.
What we don’t seem to recognize and fail to dissect with every
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
October 31, 2018
I would say that when it comes to life advice, I am an expert in a few categories. I can recommend a really good fake tanner that isn’t streaky and lasts a long time. I can tell you where to get the best turkey and avocado sandwich in the United States (the Texas Wave at Hester’s Cafe in Corpus Christi, TX). I can also let you know that Birkenstocks don’t look good on anybody, and that is not an opinion, that is an
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
October 10, 2018
Let's talk about spirit. In 1991, Nirvana reminded us that it “Smells like Teen Spirit” and since then things have never been the same. Actually, I’m not really sure if that song changed how society viewed spirit, especially because the song wasn’t particularly spirited, just really angsty, but nevertheless, still a bop. But let’s get back to spirit. Spirits, spirituality, team spirit, the spirit of who we once were