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Divest Now: Condemning Institutional Neutrality in the Face of Genocide
By: Noelle Blake '26, Serena Suson '25, and Ella Grim '25 “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...
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suffocated
by Aditi Singh I. world on fire Her fingers graze the fruit’s surface, her body’s surface, velvet peach skin resisting her movement,...

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Afterlives / Life, After
by Saturn Guo art by Sam Kang Ponyboy , authored by Eliot Duncan, is fundamentally a story of unraveling – in the half-world of...

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Intergenerational Dreaming
by Anonymous art by Yawen Xue after Langston Hughes Hughes asked, What happens to a dream deferred? When i can afford to shut the...

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Visionary Feminism 101
by Ella Grim art by Sam Paisley Spare Rib’s 101 articles aim to provide approachable yet complex introductions to different feminist...
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Mimesis: Memes, Fanon, and the Revolution of Optimism
By: Serena Suson '25 Art by: Angela Shang '27 Ἡσίοδος πρῶτον μὲν Χάος φησὶ γενέσθαι — “ ... αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Γαῖ᾽ εὐρύστερνος, πάντων ἕδος...
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Surviving the Blue
By: Erika Sowah '28 Art by: Vanessa Wynn '28 I am under pressure. Not ‘under pressure’ figuratively, but deep underwater. I’ve always...

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Whispers Through the Glass
By: Soraya Fonseca '28 Art by: Angela Shang '27 Content Warning: depression, ED, body dysmorphia The sky is brighter here. I can feel...

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An Open Letter to Asian Women at Dartmouth
By: Sam Kang '27 Art by: Shena Han '25 Back home, the Asian Pacific Islander Student Association (APISA) at my high school was constantly...

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Portrait of an Object
by Kate Ginger art by Vanessa Wynn I’m profane and I drink too much. I like sex. I’ve been in love. I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve never...

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Echo and Narcissus
By: Grace Lee '28 We saw him for the first time that day, Shrouded in a sea of green, His golden locks in the sunlight, so yellow, so...

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Voices Without An Echo
by Noelle Blake art by Rachel Roncka I: The Institution The myth of academia promises community in the liberal arts institution:...

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Nineteen in ’64; Nineteen in ’24
By: Anonymous Art by: Ellie Applegreen '28 My grandma was nineteen when she got engaged. Or maybe eighteen — she doesn’t remember for...

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the in-between
By: Claire Kovac '27 Art by: Angela Shang '27 head between your knees in the shadows of the white plains parking garage freeways stretch...

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Quiet!
by Saturn Guo, Rachel Roncka, Anna Costello, Angela Shang, Aditi Singh, and Sam Kang art by Lilla Bozek by Saturn Guo Quiet adjective...
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Mental Notes
by: Avery Lin [4:01 a.m.] Rise victim again to corporeal upbraiding congealed at the hairline, whisked from equivocal unconsciousness:...

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some romantic confessional
By: Avery Lin Art by: Sam Kang As a preface you might understand that my conceptualization of life has been historically framed by novels...

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Solitarium
By: Ellie Applegreen '28 Art by: Lillia Hammond Passage to passage she wanders, guided by the weak beam of her flashlight. Water drips...

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Idol Worship
by Angela Zhang art by Geena San Diego It was the summer before college began, that magical summer of no responsibilities and no...

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Sink— after Ariel
By: Anna Costello '28 Art by: Peiwei He is there peace for Sylvia at the bottom of the Connecticut? all that kicking and fighting just to...
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