Byline: Maddy Pauchet

Come Inside

Offstage at the Vagina Monologues

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To Build A Mosque

As France’s churches become increasingly empty, more and more Muslims are seeking a place to worship. Muslim leader Dalli Boubakeur proposes a solution: turn churches into mosques. But the idea of transforming these historic sites into spaces for a foreign religion has outraged the nationalist right.

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Divine Reckoning

Reflections on traveling the Karu Highway by bus.

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Head & Shoulders

“We agree about everything; our dependence on Nyquil, the tragedy of internalized misogyny, and the exact punctuation to use when texting fuckboys.”

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A Manali Vigil

In the dark, I imagined the worst, as one is prone to do when female, abroad, and alone. I had locked the door from the inside, and had checked on all the windows. But this was India; taking a door off its hinges probably wouldn’t be that hard.

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STAY FOR GRANDMA

In a dark kitchen, bread crumbs, ghosts, and gooseberries.

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Crazy

I decide that if only girls are crazy, I will be a boy—

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Voices from the Women’s March

Eight Princeton students reflect on protest, identity, and Drumpf’s inauguration.

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The Opera Singer

The story of a birth, and a basket of cheese fries

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Eulogy

On the night of the attack, taxis kept running but stopped their meters.

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An Interview with Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin

Chris Hedges, Pultizer Prize-winner, teaches a creative writing class comprised half of Princeton students and half of inmates at a women’s prison nearby. He and Boris Franklin, a former student of his, spoke to me about the role of education in prisons, the standing of women, and the necessity of divestment from private prisons.

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Freshman Reflections

There’s something about everyone having their bedrooms right next to everyone else’s. It doesn’t create a sexually charged environment per se.

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