Modern Exodus is a multimedia project exploring the ironic juxtaposition between Europe’s booming tourism industry and enduring refugee crisis. Sources: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35600220 http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/28/2016-sets-new-record-for-asylum-seekers-reaching-italy-by-boat https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/258876.pdf http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hungary-opens-fire-on-refugees-with-tear-gas-as-it-steps-up-border-operation-10503822.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/6/refugees-germany-more-than-1million.html Julia-Grace SandersI am a storyteller who is passionate about human rights and committed to justice. Through my work, I hope to connect social and global issues in order to foster […]
Archive | Issue 3: 2017
Exultance
exultance (n). lively or triumphant joy; success over victory. For most of my life, I have lived in a constant state of motion. I just moved on to the next life event. In Albania every day was an adventure, so much so that I could never look to the future, because the present was always so […]
Travel Highlights
In the Spring of 2015, I got to go to India with my partner and meet his family while he took people around the country for a yoga tour. It was my first time visiting India, and I documented some of the things I saw in this prose-poem. I call it “Travel Highlights” as […]
Dear Girls
You will hold a special place in my heart. I see the fire in you as you dance on stage with your sisters. Your faces suggest pain, but your dance reflects your covert passion. I sit next to the drunken man during the performance hoping you will never encounter his wrath. I hope the man you […]
Exhortations: Navigating Privilege Guilt
Alison Hill SteichenAlison Hill Steichen is a longshoreman on the Seattle Waterfront by trade. She is a current returning undergraduate student at the University of Washington studying the Comparative History of Ideas and Labor Studies. Alison has a strong interest in social justice, specifically workers rights. She has participated in study abroad programs in Greece, […]
Excursion
Abby TalkingtonAbby Talkington is in her second year at the UW, pursuing Comparative History of Ideas and Economics. Her passions revolve around the intersections of historically accumulated capital, oppressive systems, and deconstructing normative assumptions. She studied abroad in Sardinia in the summer of 2016, and any money she saves goes towards traveling. She always […]
Part 3: ex·posures
exposure (n.): the condition of being subject to some effect or influence. Here we reveal faces of subjection and vulnerability and the challenge of responding adequately. Excursion by Abby Talkington Exhortations: Navigating Privilege Guilt by Alison Hill Steichen Dear Girls by Molly Woerner Travel Highlights by Crystaline Brown Exultance by Lauren Hanna Modern Exodus by Julia-Grace […]
Roots Excluded From Soil
I carry a pain—a pain I do not fully understand, the trauma of my ancestors. I find it difficult to talk about the struggle of my parents immigrating to the U.S. and the consequences that have rippled to my generation, mostly because they have done what they can to shelter me from this dark time […]
Excavating My Expectations For A Semester in Southern Spain
She left the United States when she boarded the plane at Dallas/Fort Worth. Twenty years old and thirsty for adventure, the plane carried her over the ocean to the small Spanish city. She thought she was beginning the typical European adventure many other 20-somethings so desire, the one that would bring her to a new […]
Saint Astier
I sat inside the train. I was trying to write in my flimsy tiny green notebook, on whose cover I had written “Heidi’s adventures in France 11/17 to 11/21/2016.” I had written the second part of the date the day before, as that’s when I decided my date of departure. I was trying hard to […]