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Queer Love Isn't Violence

Queer Love Isn’t Violence

Austin Thornton, Volunteer May 20, 2025

Content warning: violence, references to explicit material   “I lie back against the sheets & Charybdis both this body’s hungry mouths, let my finger feel what wet wreckage, what good and...

The Real Monster in Horror Media: Stereotype

The Real Monster in Horror Media: Stereotype

Chloe Vilevac, Volunteer May 16, 2025

Horror entertainment, a genre that heavily relies on the use of stereotypes to generate fear and suspense, perpetuates negative beliefs about marginalized groups, leading to further marginalization...

Stories-Within-Stories: A Structural Love Letter to Art

Stories-Within-Stories: A Structural Love Letter to Art

Rhys Hodson, Volunteer May 13, 2025

The first time I watched Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” I didn’t get it. This does not seem to be an uncommon experience with the film — its reviews are shockingly divisive, with many of the...

Stories that Change the World

Stories that Change the World

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor April 29, 2025

Content warning: gun violence, coarse language   In times of political upheaval, I notice a lot of my fellow writers gearing themselves up as though they’re about to step into war. They post...

Actually Netflix, We Are Still Watching: The Wrongful Cancellations of Netflix Original Shows

Actually Netflix, We Are Still Watching: The Wrongful Cancellations of Netflix Original Shows

Josie Hartung, Volunteer April 22, 2025

Netflix — streaming giant, slayer of BlockBuster Video and host platform to such original classics as “Squid Game,” “Love is Blind,” “Stranger Things,” “Love Island,” “You,” “Temptation...

"Conclave" (2024) & Ghost: A little bit more alike than meets the eye

“Conclave” (2024) & Ghost: A little bit more alike than meets the eye

Chloe Vilevac and Maria Tejeda Solorzano April 16, 2025

What do the pope of the Catholic Church and a pope of a satanic clergy have in common? Well, gender nonconformity, for one! Before any pitchforks are raised, this is about two entirely fictional representations...

The Classics Aren't Dead: "A Modest Proposal" still modest after 300 years

The Classics Aren’t Dead: “A Modest Proposal” still modest after 300 years

Sam Szekely, Volunteer April 8, 2025

Growing up, classic literature was framed to me as this terrifying and boring behemoth sure to haunt high school English classes and students’ nightmares for years to come — and I suspect that I wasn’t...

"The Midnight Library," Owl Criticism, and Me

“The Midnight Library,” Owl Criticism, and Me

Tate Kraetzer, Volunteer April 1, 2025

Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm   At the risk of sounding conceited, let’s harken back to two specific quotes from my previous blog posts.  First, in my review of...

Jim Obergefell waves to the crowd at San Francisco Pride 2015 while holding a rainbow pride flag. Image retrieved from Flickr under Creative Commons licensing.

Reflections on marriage equality: Obergefell’s visit to OSU

Sam Szekely, Volunteer March 11, 2025

*The following is an edited excerpt of a journal entry written on March 6   Today, I had the opportunity to meet Jim Obergefell and hear him talk on a panel about being the plaintiff of Obergefell...

The Bartimaeus Sequence: I was 20 and It Made Me Cry

The Bartimaeus Sequence: I was 20 and It Made Me Cry

Maria Tejeda Solorzano, Volunteer March 4, 2025

The Bartimaeus Sequence actually started as a trilogy. Written by Jonathan Stroud, the original trilogy was published from 2003 to 2005, with the books in the following order: “The Amulet of Samarkand,”...

A Defense of Authorship in the Age of AI

A Defense of Authorship in the Age of AI

Austin Thornton, Volunteer February 25, 2025

Since the introduction of generative artificial intelligence models, newly-released books can be and have been plagiarized with AI-generated copies within a day of their release. Students are increasingly...

Creating in Perilous Times: What Would You Carry?

Creating in Perilous Times: What Would You Carry?

Brynne Boehlecke, Editor-in-Chief February 18, 2025

Last year, I wrote a blog post covering my experience in the “Stone Award Book Club,” a 1-credit course focused on unpacking Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass” and learning what it means...

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