This place was my birthright, and I wasn’t going to keep out because I was nineteen, or because I was queer.
Founded in 1977 at Columbia University's School of the Arts
This place was my birthright, and I wasn’t going to keep out because I was nineteen, or because I was queer.
I am sitting in front of a half-eaten burrito bowl in a booth at 1020. I text Zoe, “quick— what do you want to drink” because I feel anxious about […]
Catherine and I are standing on the train platform waiting for the one train. We’re both bitching about things we hate, so I decide this is the perfect time to […]
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Dear fellow readers and writers, As the leaves are starting to turn, our journal’s pages are filling up with some truly amazing fiction, poetry, translation, and of course art, […]
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