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Empowering The Rainbow: How to Fight The Normalization Of Toxic Masculinity

Nicole Shim·
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·September 17, 2023·10 min read
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
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Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers

Sophia Falco·
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·September 15, 2023·6 min read
Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers is a compilation of three poems which mean a lot for me.
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Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician’s Perspective

Hollace Sheppard·
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·September 12, 2023·13 min read
Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician's Perspective is actually thoughts from a funeral director and also an ode to an overdose victim.
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Negative Depictions of the Catholic Religion: Be Not Afraid, Never

Kristen Lanerie·
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·September 10, 2023·6 min read
In my poetry, I highlight negative depictions of Catholic religion and discuss how they differ from my own experiences as a Catholic.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Milk

Aislin Neufeldt·
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·August 31, 2023·17 min read
What is my responsibility as a trans feminine person when the human-induced strain on the planet is the driver of the climate crisis?
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An Experimental Film About Television & the Quick Prize of Midnight Plasticity

Devin Welch·
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·August 30, 2023·3 min read
The poem driving this experimental film about television considers the insomniacs who wake at the same time each night in rhythm.
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Racial Discrimination in and out of the Classroom

Brittany Whitneybell·
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·August 27, 2023·63 min read
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
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One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death

Anthony Domenick·
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·August 22, 2023·30 min read
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
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Renata Ferdinand·
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·August 7, 2023·3 min read
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
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Poetry Helped Me Reclaim My History: Poems of/from Photos

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·August 4, 2023·12 min read
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
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Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring

Eric Daffron·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·July 30, 2023·12 min read
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
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Really, There Are No Helpers in The Foster System

Meg Hagseth·
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·July 22, 2023·5 min read
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
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