Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note Dear Reader, What does it mean to be disobedient? What do acts of disobedience propose, unsettle, reveal, make possible? With this Autumn 2025 issue of RevUU we invite you to think alongside our contributing authors about the different forms disobedience can take. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines disobedience as “refusing or neglecting to…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Anna
In High School We Read Dante by Anna Franciosa In High School we read Dante my classmates debate what ring of the Inferno they would end up in Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, Treachery. A Kenyan homeless man screams in the street “Free African LGBT.” A Brother in the States gets a new…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Trisha
Decanting Some Thoughts on Why We Bother, or An Offering by Trisha Bhaya The seasons are changing and maybe I am too. It is a bit trite, I am aware, but I am trying something out, so please bear with me. It’s October and I thought things would be different and I’m trying To sit…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Paula 2
Prevail By Paula Kubacka In this foreign land, an alien must adapt. It can’t ask questions, especially in a language nobody understands. An alien must know its place, so it never crosses another line, especially that of a border. This alien might never dream again – dreams are a dangerous thing – this alien might…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Paula 1
You Don’t Live in This World by Paula Kubacka But you will love and collect, and beg that it will be enough. You will never live like they do. Your time is always stolen, taken by shaky hands and lost with every unsure breath. You will never live like they do, though you will die…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Shupei
Untitled by Shupei Pan This piece is dedicated to all the women elders I have encountered and loved. May you remain unafraid and disobedient in the face of time’s cruel taking. Beauty is always fleeting, isn’t it? If it weren’t, how could we, finite as we are, ever truly experience it? You, brimming with youth…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Gintonik
a letter to my bed by gintonik of course you know, that i had two beds in my life. and of course you know, that every time i am sleeping with you now, i am thinking of the other: let me finally introduce them to you. i know i should’ve done it earlier. they were…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Jojo
Is This What Makes Us Human By Jojo Hogetoorn Is this What makes us human? Is this what you desire? Well stab me in the heart And cast me in the ire, I needn’t be acquainted with This thing you hold so dear, What you see as a pleasure Only fills me up with fear.…
Autumn 2025 – Creative Writing Ksenia
Women Like These By Ksenia Kwiecińska For years I’ve been trying to trace freaky, lonely, obsessive, kind, imaginative, odd female leads in the cinema. My pursuit, initially one of identification quickly turned into a private research project on female cinematic representation, surrounding especially questions of strangeness and irrationality but also, and undeniably consequently, total liberation…
Autumn 2025: Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Nwanyi ib m” The Love and Desire to Be Truly Known in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count (2025) By Hanna Goemans Translation note: Nwanyi ib m translates roughly into ‘my fellow woman.’ It is a term of endearment. “I have always longed to be known, truly known by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name.” With these ponderings, Chimamanda…
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