Shreya Tewarinocturnal. often seen sitting in corners.
Archive | Issue 3: 2017
Memorandums
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 has […]
Fine Tuning
Natural Reverence The pines on the trees grow in spherical shapes The sky is not merely blue here, but a haze of grey blanketing what could be blue The air is thin 6000 feet up and dusted with sandalwood incense The buzzing of birds and insects let me not forget I was in the mountains: […]
Part 2: ex·cavations
excavation (n.): the act of bringing to the surface or to light. Here we uncover what lies beneath, behind, and beyond our hardened perceptions. Fine Tuning by Molly Woerner Memorandums by Abby Talkington When We Met by Shreya Tewari Saint Astier by Heidi Goldstick Excavating My Expectations For A Semester in Southern Spain by Hannah McIlroy Roots Excluded From Soil […]
Compulsive Sharing and Four Arctic Brothers
In the Summer of 2016, I got to travel to Tromsø, Norway and learn about Sámi language and culture and global indigeneity from Professors Christopher Teuton (Cherokee Nation) and Troy Storfjell (Sámi). I wrote two poems during my time in the Arctic Circle. “Compulsive Sharing” was inspired by Dian Million’s writings on indigenous knowledge, as well as […]
Globalism: Collaging Culture
WHAT FIRST STRUCK ME ABOUT BERLIN WAS THE UNDENIABLE VITALITY OF EXPRESSION THAT EXISTS IN ALMOST EVERY POCKET OF THE CITY. IT FELT MORE INTERESTED IN HOW MY IDENTITY CONTRIBUTED TO THE AMORPHIC NATURE OF THE CULTURE RATHER THAN THE LINES ALONG WHICH THE TWO WERE CONSISTENT. I FOUND THAT THE CONTEMPORARY BERLINER IS NOT […]
In Translation
I have spent my life learning languages. Language after language. I read today, somewhere in the depths of internet clickbait aimed at an itinerant traveler, that people who speak different languages switch their personality to fit the language they are speaking. The article seemed to be suggesting that this switch was a falsehood, a manipulation […]
Focal Points
When asked, “Hey, how was your trip?” I’m often left either gagging on my own words attempting to summarize three months in Europe into a couple of coherent sentences, or I’m caught rattling off everything I did from start to finish without providing any tangible information that leaves anyone with a clue to the original question. It’s […]
Red Threads
I got the bracelet in India. I thought the 50-rupee red string bracelet (75 cents) would adorn my wrist nicely as a reminder of my trip. Photos could only depict so much, and my memory tends to fade. The bracelet was a rich reminder of the people whose lives I entered briefly and the mark […]