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Sahiba Gill

I Promised Queer Theories

Dr. Strokes suddenly figures out her queerness in the shortest column all semester. I have a difficult relationship with my body, and a lot of that conflict comes from my identity as a survivor. I hate it, sometimes, when I think about
December 16, 2008

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has come and, hard to believe, is already gone again. It was great to go home and visit with my family, but it was also very strange to return home, which feels so much the same, and yet so different: home
December 3, 2008

Thanksgiving in Edinburgh

It figures that three weeks before I leave, I am starting to feel really comfortable in Edinburgh. Recently my program ate a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, but first, a couple tidbits about student cuisine (read: cheap eating) in the city.
December 1, 2008

Mediaswain

Nautical types like to call people "swains." If you have some sort of job, you're probably a swain. Refreshment-swain, office-swain, and the ur-swain, the boatswain. This column is an extension of my duties as program Mediaswain, as it was coined by the
December 1, 2008

Curiosity Killed the… Columnist?

Dr. Strokes wonders why it's sometimes easier to have sex than to talk about sex (yes, even for her) and asks a whole bunch of questions which maybe you can answer.
November 21, 2008

Ought I Have Studied Abroad?

Seth gets a little bit homesick for Swarthmore and complains about the lack of sunlight up at 56 degrees north latitude, but decides in the end that studying abroad is worthwhile as a change of pace.
November 18, 2008

Beyond Cynicism and Idealism

What is the meaning of cynicism? In the case of artists, either a totalizing form of ineffable despair or a fully ironic attitude devoid of any meaning or true regard; in the case of philosophers and scholars, a paralyzing skepticism that allows
November 18, 2008

The Bayou

Williams-Mystic's third and final field seminar took us to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana to experience the third major body of water that borders our fair continent. The Arctic Ocean is, sadly, not a part of our curriculum (not that I wouldn’t
November 17, 2008
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