Category: Freelance

  • Winter

    Winter

    Written by Kate Diller. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss.  – Winter is the best season, and you’re not going to change my mind. I live for freezing days with harsh breezes that nip at your cheeks. I grew up in places that do winter well, have the season as it was meant to be. The sharp…

  • Canvas Stalking, Google Docs, and Email: The Trials and Tribulations of Dating in College

    Canvas Stalking, Google Docs, and Email: The Trials and Tribulations of Dating in College

    Written by Ian McEntee. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – I am and will continue to be a serial dater. Nothing serious tends to come from these dates, but hey, free coffee is always fun once in a while. The issue lately has been finding new ways to meet people. Yeah, Tinder is a thing, but…

  • Queer Hollywood Finds a Light

    Queer Hollywood Finds a Light

    Written by Patrick Rogers.Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – Boy Erased is one of two major motion pictures released this year to bring the truth about conversion therapy to the big screen. Based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir, directed by Joel Edgerton, and featuring names like Troye Sivan, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, the…

  • The Power of Food

    The Power of Food

    Written by Alyssa Hiarker. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – Pick a memory where you were undeniably happy. What do you remember from that moment? Do you remember what you could see? What you could smell? What you could taste? Your memories may be clouded, the specifics of those instances may be lost to time, but…

  • Words We Need

    Words We Need

    Written by Kate Diller. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – Showing yourself kindness, while empowering, is shockingly difficult. You’d think it would be easy, we’re kind to others every day. So why is it that we can’t apply that to ourselves? I think about this almost every day. It’s something I really struggle with, even as…

  • The Unloved Specialty

    The Unloved Specialty

    Written by Sarah Low. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – There are many reasons as to why psychiatry may be one of medicine’s most unloved specialties; after all, in the eyes of many, psychiatry may as well be the practice of psychological “voodoo magic” meant to warp and control patients’ minds. Even the term “shrink” (slang…

  • The Psychonaut

    The Psychonaut

    Written by Sarah Low. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. – I found Salome again. I found her in my dreams. Indeed, I am reporting that the entire ‘exchange’ had happened for months. And for the sake of finding your daughter’s remains ever again, I ask that you heed my word and my warning. First, I can…

  • A Dark Ride

    A Dark Ride

    Written by Niti Majethia. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss.   How to be intoxicating? Make your flaws your very own trademarks. How to be a work of Art? Let your deepest wounds breathe. Let them teach you how to set your inner soul free. How to be raw? Do not tame your chaos. Unleash the true…

  • Le spectacle

    Le spectacle

    Written by Eleni Theodoropoulos. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. The spicy smell of salep and the sound of frothing milk filled the air between the show tents. Vendors called out their products, bargained, and jeered at you if you ignored them or preferred their competitor’s baklava. Ophélie’s parents lapsed into an argument over by the stained…

  • a memory

    a memory

    Written by Matthew Yu. Photo by Matthew Yu. a memory everlasting, a line that twists into an oval, sprouting features, lips, contours of a face I’ve known for so long, but can’t comprehend -so I stare into its velvet black eyes, whose laugh pulls at my hair and crinkles, echoing away into space like pieces…