Kiki McLaughlin

Kiki McLaughlin
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Kiki is a third-year English major with a history minor. She enjoys swing dancing, playing Pokemon Go, writing notes-app poetry, and finding easily climb-able trees on Grounds. She is also heavily involved in community-building at Brown Residential College, where she can usually be found. 

 

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She loved going to markets and holding the fruit in her hand, feeling the tension of the skin and the pulp against her palm.

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What do straight cisgender people want?

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Whenever I read, watch, or play different forms of post-apocalyptic fiction, I always end up wondering what I’d do if I were in these worlds, whether they be ravaged by nuclear blasts, invaded by aliens, or torn apart by natural disaster. 

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I was driving home on an autumn evening
Accidentally on a backroad route
Leaves turning
John Mellencamp on the radio station – I’ve always loved the oldies – 

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Over fall break, I was in Boston with one of my good friends to look at law schools. On the way to find food, we found ourselves in the shopping district.

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I blame you for everything –
I blame myself for even more.
I’m dumb and stubborn; you, careless.

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I discovered my love of dancing at my junior prom, when I slung around my “Prom Royalty” sash to “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X

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Some of my earliest memories involve the My Little Pony franchise,