March 3, 2025

body | disembodied

an eyeball made up of pink, orange, and white worms on a dark blue background with waves and stars

Sometimes I think there are worms in my eyes.

Susannah Baker

on a blue-green background, pale hands squeeze juice from a bright orange into a cup

she’s ripe, holding her / pieces together / by tearable strings & / bruisable skin

Carley Frajda

the sun shines brightly, two streetlights visible through rays of light

Last week, when I was walking to class, it was 60 degrees and sunny.

Lindsey Smith

the surface of a body of water with lines of red blood floating on the right

He didn’t want to play, but you pressured him.

Cassie Dallas

Two figures watch a TV on a couch in a drab living room. The TV shows, in bright and vibrant colors, Chappell Roan's Grammy performance in which she rides on a giant pink pony

I was not sure what to expect from a class called Pleasure Activism Across Time, but having taken a class with its professor, Lisa Speidel, before,

Jordan Coleman

two images of FKA twigs, a brown woman with intense smokey makeup and many piercings, one of which shows just FKA twigs's face and the other shows her crouching down

Out of all the creative minds I could have selected to illuminate the essence of love, I had to choose the metaphysical poet, John Donne, and conte

the heart and other organs

I must feed my body and soul

Simone Minor

sharks on the bottom of a pool

where i come from, there are sharks in every lake

Vaidehi Bhardwaj

hand on an letter

This latest edition of Iris is urgently interested in all things "Body and Disembodied".

Miriella Jiffar

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