Byline: Tamar Willis

Tanar, Tamar

Tamar also happens to be a character in the Bible known for being a prostitute — undoubtedly a solid legacy I have inherited.

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Mission to Cuba

Experiencing a Communist nation as an American tourist.

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Telescoping Place

places you have lived, places you know better than anyone else, places in your mind, places you could inhabit, what it means to exist within a place

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Partial Recall

What I’ve realized is that I shouldn’t get complacent – the best years of my life won’t necessarily come to me; I have to pursue them.

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North / South / East / West

A portrait of Tel Aviv in four directions.

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Parched

Social responsibility and conditions of scarcity.

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A Problem of Privilege

“Girls aren’t educated at the same rates as boys? Government is in a constant state of unrest? It’s okay—the affluent white person can help.”

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Frat Boys, Feminism, and Vaginas

I heard this from someone who’d heard it from one of the directors of this year’s production of The Vagina Monologues here at Princeton. Intrigued by the pairing of frat boys and vaginas (in monologue form), I reached out to this year’s directors, Azza Cohen ’16 and Olivia Robbins ’16, to get the full story of what happened at Penn and to see if anything similar was happening at Princeton.

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Bargaining with God

Why would I want to believe (if I do believe at all) in a God who requires blind faith and has destructive ethics, for whom we must be violent in order to show devotion?

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Grandmother’s Cooking

Feels like home, tastes like childhood

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Unmaking Marriage

A secret history of the unknown blond

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Julia

The first text I sent you said “love me.” I had met you once, and sent it from your roommate’s phone. You were too cool to play it cool.

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