Byline: Maddy Pauchet

Amsterdam

Coming home from the city of sin and freedom.

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Take Control of Your Body, Smash the Patriarchy

“In December of last year, I finally looked into alternatives. Part of that might have been motivated by an uptick in national conversations around accessible birth control, and part of it might have been that more of my friends were having these conversations too.”

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STAY FOR GRANDMA

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

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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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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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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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Come Inside

Offstage at the Vagina Monologues

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Bottom Rung

Of freedom and heights, on the rooftops of Princeton.

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Divine Reckoning

Reflections on traveling the Karu Highway by bus.

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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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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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