Color Me Brown – What Girl, Woman, Other Taught Me about My Brownness Creative Criticism by Neelam Reddy Second place winner of the 2022 One Book One Campus Creative Contest on Girl, Woman, Other, hosted by the Utrecht University – Color – Four. I was four years old when I learned the color brown. IContinue reading
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Dear Ma, How Can Poetry Speak to Our Migrant Experience? Creative Criticism by Leanne Talavera I ’ve come to realize, Ma, that arrivals and departures are very chaotic in their order. The frenzied organization of one’s life under a 30kg suitcase limit. The back-and-forth between a pen, and a passenger form, and a passport. TheContinue reading
’Maybe Love and Loneliness Are Not that Different After All’: A Dialogue about Klara and the Sun Creative Criticism by Aristi Makrygiannaki 1 “Have you started reading Klara and the Sun?” “Well… no, to be honest.” “Come on, why? You love Ishiguro’s stories, and I got it for you because I really wanted us toContinue reading
The Other Child: Witnessing Chronic Illness Creative Criticism by Jared Meijer The Other Child When she was eight, Alice found her mother collapsed on the kitchen floor. By age ten, she and her mother shared a diagnosis, that of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or ME. “I remember feeling almost pleased with my diagnosis, even if IContinue reading
Blue, I love you: Three Letters To the Colour Blue
By Anna Sóley Ásmundsdóttir I Thoughts flow through my mind one after another, and sometimes a few at a time, both intertwined and independent. They form a musical cacophony that one would think impossible, except if one complements the other. A melody complements a lyric, but only one of them carries a semantic meaning. I walk from the record shop to the train holding an old recordContinue reading “Blue, I love you: Three Letters To the Colour Blue”
SEX AND PLAGIARISM: Kathy Acker Walks Into a Bar…
By Elif Kayahan I. 00.20 A.M. on a Thursday night. A bar with dim lighting. Nothing special about the place. Just another bar in a relatively poor neighborhood close to the university. At one table sit three middle-aged women. Their cashmere scarves and pearl earrings give away that they don’t quite fit in here. They are here to observeContinue reading “SEX AND PLAGIARISM: Kathy Acker Walks Into a Bar…”
LEDA – WRITE THY SELF
LEDA WRITE THY SELF By Leda Serikoglu HERE LIES THE BRUTAL DICHOTOMY OF THE DEAD. Some are taught the sky is the limit Some are warned to mind the ground Yet even with the Heavens and Earths colliding… She counted reveries which could not be found, but conjured out of twenty-six by two cases theContinue reading “LEDA – WRITE THY SELF”
Life and Other Stories
By Lea Dokter For as long as I can remember, stories have been a foundational part of my life. I have started to think of them as a breadcrumb trail weaving through my own story, beginning with my mother, and later helping me find my way back to my father. They helped me navigate the twisted undergrowthContinue reading “Life and Other Stories”
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