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Tag: spring 2019 issue

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Sizing Up Sex Positivity

January 8, 2020February 21, 2020 kitsch

By Jacqueline Groshaufmanis Sex positivity is an attitude towards sex that largely aims to remove guilt, shame and overthinking from the equation. Slut shaming and kink shaming are among the flagged behaviors that it works to combat, but it also … Continue reading Sizing Up Sex Positivity

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Pioneering

January 8, 2020 kitsch

By Tilda Wilson It is a warm early September day in Wales, 152 years before I’m born. My great-great-great-grandfather John Parry, Jr. is persuaded by the Latter Day Saint missionaries Lucius Scovil and Joseph Cain to go to church. Years … Continue reading Pioneering

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Big Bend and Boquillas: a park on both sides

January 8, 2020January 15, 2020 kitsch

By Emma Eisler We have been driving through the Southwest for long enough, now, that the inside of my car is caked in sand and I know instinctively to check my hiking boots for scorpions. This is it, the adolescent … Continue reading Big Bend and Boquillas: a park on both sides

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Pushing the Boundaries of Language: using metaphor to say what we mean

January 8, 2020 kitsch

By Emma Goldenthal Language is one of the most fundamental tools with which we communicate with others. We paint pictures, share stories, evoke emotions, and form deep, lasting bonds with and through our words. In doing so, therefore, we must … Continue reading Pushing the Boundaries of Language: using metaphor to say what we mean

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Coming of Age on Tumblr: a memory collage

January 8, 2020 kitsch

By Anna Lee Continue reading Coming of Age on Tumblr: a memory collage

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Looking Beyond the Aesthetics of Sustainable Fashion

January 8, 2020 kitsch

By Nicole Oliviera Given increased concerns about climate change and the speed at which humans are quite literally destroying the planet, many are looking for eco-friendly or low-impact alternatives to otherwise damaging products in our environment. Clothing has not escaped … Continue reading Looking Beyond the Aesthetics of Sustainable Fashion

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Swipe Right for Pillow Talk

January 8, 2020 kitsch

By Emma Eisler I’m sitting next to him in bed, hickey blooming on my neck, when he says the dreaded words: “I’m actually fiscally conservative.” A chill runs down my spine. I feel my stomach clench and scan the room … Continue reading Swipe Right for Pillow Talk

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Speaking Ill of the Dead and other taboos

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 kitsch

By Abby Eskinder Hailu Storytime! Way back, when Cornell University was still a distant dream, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White stood on a grassy patch of what is now a corner of the Arts Quad, and they just knew. … Continue reading Speaking Ill of the Dead and other taboos

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From Period Sex to Borderline Personality Disorder: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW Show Transcending the Normative Discourse on Mental Illness & Femininity

November 27, 2019 kitsch

“Rebecca isn’t a victim– nor is she a villain. She is dynamic. And above all else, she is human.” Continue reading From Period Sex to Borderline Personality Disorder: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW Show Transcending the Normative Discourse on Mental Illness & Femininity

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