Category: Reflections

Love in the Orange Bubble

“I scribbled a question on my scrap of paper and tossed it into the designated baseball hat: Can you tell us a little about hookups and relationships at school?”

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Behind Closed Doors

Did the pangs ever actually stop? Are they pangs, or are they constant? Do they hurt you? Are you okay?

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Mr. Sanders Goes to Washington

Searching for idealism in a cynical time.

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Midpoints

I spend this most recent Passover with my mother’s closest friend from high school and her family for the first time.

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Greedy in Love

As I reflected on my failed attempt to find love on Tinder, I could not help but agree with Nietzsche.

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Exeat

I want to revisit every city I have been, and take you along this time. Rewrite all the sights, all the memories.

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DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT: A Personal(ish) History of Fanfiction

“Now that it’s mainstream, it’s hard for me to reconcile the subcultural nature of fanfiction and fan spaces with its ever-increasing visibility. For almost a decade, I’ve been so entrenched in fan culture that it surprises me when someone doesn’t know what Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics entail.”

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Mother Tongue

A power imbalance mediated by language, a relationship done and undone in the webs of translation.

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Hannah-Sophie Vester

I’ve never seen my birth certificate, but I know what it says. I can see the angular font in my head, bold blocky letters spelling out my name: Hannah-Sophie Vester. Perhaps the ink, thick and sticky, smudged just a little and that’s where that mark, printed defiantly between Hannah and Sophie, came from. Just a typo, a wayward smudge. Another look, though, and who wouldn’t recognize the hyphen for what it is?

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Everyone except for the dinosaurs

Samuel Bollen on Dinosaurs.

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The Sunset Art: Thoughts on Photography and Travel

“For Sontag, photography gives the amateur tourist photographer a sense of control— but superficial control. Knowledge— but superficial knowledge. In an unfamiliar, foreign environment the camera offers the illusive feeling of possession and command, in a very real sense empowering the photographer to take something of the place with them as their own.”

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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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