Katie Jane Villanueva
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Katie Jane is a fourth-year student majoring in History. Outside of Iris, Katie Jane works as a graphic designer for Aramark, freelance artist, and DJ for WXTJ Charlottesville. She spends her free time making animations for TikTok, gaming or watching cartoons with friends, and pretending to do homework at Starbucks.
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It is tea time and Mary, Queen of Scots is sitting next to me on a rickety bench on a gritty sidewalk. Up the hill is a stone castle. This, I think, is what I expected adult life to be — a posh tea, flower blossoms in glass teapots.
To the everyday people I encounter– my parents’ co-worker, the friend of a friend, that one politics department alumni, and a handful of people in my extended family, Stop asking me what I’m going to do with my Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies major.
Amidst the positive reception of the HEAAL tours, there are still some questions left unanswered.
I hated my mother for a long time. And right now, I cringe at the sight of those words on a page because I have never uttered them out loud, much less to another person.
Aethiopia, Abyssinia, Askum, Kush
All names thrown around by history books, by scholars
Attempting to intellectualize, rationalize, standardize
the place my parents call home
For first-year students, these historical tours are a vital step to understanding the place they will be inhabiting for the next four years.
In their first year, seven members of the class of 2023 — Kyndall, Amanda, Chloe, Dianna, Ephrata, Ida and Abena — took a historical tour as part of a requirement for one of their classes, the genesis of what would become the HEAAL tours for first-year students three years later.
This issue, we delve into all the ways we use clothes to communicate.
Short interviews with various UVA students on how they approach their own style, where they draw inspiration from, and where they like to shop.
Whether you love or hate her music (and I, for one, hope you love it), you have to acknowledge that Taylor Swift is a master of reinventing herself.
I never thought I’d be able to say that I became best friends with a Scottish drag queen after winning a dance contest that had me death-dropping onto a sticky floor in a basement bar in Edinburgh. Enter Amy L’Amour.