Fall 2019 Magazine

microcosmos

my ceiling isn’t very interesting  considering the amount of time  I spend staring at it  hours upon hours  tracing constellations   hoping to make some sense  of the bumps and fissures splattered up there  maybe I should paint something on that blank canvas  to keep my mind from wandering  maybe hang up a rotating solar system  to dangle […]

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Pain, unseen

Recalculating my body and my pain  My therapist tells me that when you picture your body in your mind’s eye, everything is not of equal size. The average person will picture their head as much bigger than it is because they spend much more time thinking about their head than the rest of their body.  My perception of my body is

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Our own safer spaces

In March 2017, I started a fight in the Facebook comments section for an article in The Varsity called “In Search of a Safe Space”. In this article, “a safe space” was used to refer to “a comfortable study area for finals season”. I was young, and mad, and it felt like the right thing to do.  “Safe space” is a term that, especially two years ago, was gaining traction

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