Autumn Jefferson

Autumn Jefferson
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Pronouns: she/her/hers

Autumn is a rising third-year majoring in Architecture on a pre-professional track. Her interests as a designer are driven by an appreciation for systematic and organic creation, a love of art, as well as an enthusiasm for hands-on production. 

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hand holding four leaf clover

Did you know that everyone in the world is different from everyone else? It’s 2001 and Disney Channel just discovered race.

burning fire with hearts

The love I had for you 

I did not know where to let it rest

palm with lines tracing everywhere

there is a longing within me

for something that is not there

person shouting

I am no stranger to opinion. 

As someone who gravitates towards op-ed writing, I am used to disagreement. I enjoy reading political essays online, especially from news outlets that allow conservative voices to publish thinkpieces.

drag queen

Gay Christmas, or bitches Christmas, was a queer Halloween parade born in Philadelphia in the 1950s, in response to the

Body dancing through a gym

Dearest,

I watched from the top of the staircase tonight as you gripped the railing on the way down, knuckles white and still bony from the years you let me hold them. 

hand writing in the center of the page surrounded by scribbles

Dear beloved reader,

Close your eyes.

Inhale. Exhale.

How do you imagine blindness? 

A girl in a dark blue coat looking over a casket at a funeral.

Inside New Mt. Zion church, in front of the pulpit, lay the body of a man I’d never known nor seen a day in my life.

A green and pink moth pinned to a wall, attempting to break free.

put a luna moth in my breast 

Yellow hands, holding a blue phone and choosing to decline the call, with green text messages surrounding the phone,

I wish you knew what I was up to. 

A girl scrolling on her phone while getting ready to go out to a party.

As I watch Bridgerton edits on TikTok, I once again ask myself, “Why do they get to dress up and go to balls, while I have to dress up and go to frat parties?”