CJ Ackerman-Garvin
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CJ Ackerman-Garvin is a fourth year double majoring in Psychology and English with a concentration in literary prose and minoring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They are interested in pursuing community or social psychology with a focus on LGBTQ+ youth populations, particularly trans youth. Outside of Iris, they are the president of UVA’s Queer Student Union, a facilitator for Hoos Connected, a research assistant in the Psychology and WGS departments, and a Lawn resident–stop by to say hello at 50 East Lawn! When they aren’t writing, you can find them playing oboe, buying fun earrings, or perusing used bookstores.
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The others had not warned her about what to expect when she held life in her hands.
Please. All they had to do was ask, and their body finally listened, digging down and sprouting roots, and they felt whole.
I had a strict routine in eighth grade. Every day, when I got home from school, I would listen to this album, and if I had Spotify at that point, I can only imagine how unbalanced my Wrapped would've been.
For many years, I did not think about you, until one night, I imagined myself on the bus again, sitting beside you, and I could not understand how I had forgotten you.
The story below incorporates several fragments pulled at random from my Google Docs.
I had decided CJ was a name for the future. A name I had to earn. A name I had to be cool enough to use.