In Greek mythology, the story of how the omnipresent, chauvinist, rules with a golden fist god came to be has trickled down throughout generations, across living rooms, and onto the pages of young adult fantasy novels. As Rhea’s final child and the youngest of six divine children, Zeus was able to escape his father’s bad…

We graze the tall fields of grass and sunbathe not knowing that no matter how expansive the field may seem, there always exists a fence around the enclosure. We eat from the hands of those who slit our throats, who package us up neatly into styrofoam vacuum sealed portions and ship our body parts off…

On June 9th,  I had the opportunity to speak to Morten Messerschmidt, current leader of the Danish People’s Party, at the Ollerup Democracy Festival. I expressed that I was interested in his definition of social cohesion, as he referred to its integral role in maintaining active democratic participation. He articulated his opinions of what he…

“This is then to say that the distinctions between here and there, and the world that the here and now organizes, are not fixed—they are already becoming undone in relation to a forward-dawning futurity.”1 -Muñoz, J.E. What does it mean to look up to the horizon rather than the ground?  In the search for a…

My name is Wendy, and I have enough children to open an orphanage. Nineteen years ago, my mother celebrated her birthday with a shrieking, just barely sentient ball of slimy excrement with a disproportionately heavy head and perineal lacerations. She tells me it was the best day of her life. I tell her to cut…