Faith Leslie

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Faith Leslie graduated from UVA in 2026. She majored in Global Public Health and English.

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For this Iris issue, I wanted to share my reflections on global health: what it is, why it's important, and why it means so much to me.

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I would like to disrupt this shallow concept of resolutions to offer a more reflective way of thinking about the new year. What better way to do so than by talking about my 2026 Ins and Outs?

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In which I am a chorus of bodies shuffling out for the night—muttering to themselves, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

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From snarky and mischievous teens to the sisters using their craft to shape destiny, TV witches have always offered something more than a silly broomstick—they've

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"Everything's good!" Ava awkwardly blurted, silently cursing herself for sounding so meek. She isn't exactly giving 'nonchalant-cool-girl,' like she intended. Why couldn't she be like Vivian?

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Earlier this month, I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with the lovely MaKshya Tolbert. In addition to being an artist, award-winning poet, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Shade is a Place, she was also my first instructor of poetry.

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On my screen are uploaded images of teens pleading for cosmetic advice.

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What do you call it when you learn silence before you learn yourself?

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If there is one thing I love more than horror, it is judging other people's movie taste

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There are no street lights. No crosswalks nor stoplights to mark your location. 

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Stay here. Take a walk and watch / our steps fall into synchrony like an old dance / we used to know better than our own names.