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Virginia Festival of the Book: Recap of ‘MFA Alumni Reading’
Story by: Camille Kidwell The Virginia Festival of the Book is an exciting event that brings local, literary scholars great joy each year. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, an organization...
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Going Home: A Chat with Poet H. Marie Williams
H Marie Williams graduated from the University of Virginia in 2006 where she received her undergraduate degree in Education, with a focus on Sports Medicine. Story by: Michelle Cho Her first year at...
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5 Easy Halloween Costumes Inspired by Empowering Female Movie Characters
Story and art by Kendall Siewert Disclaimer: I am all for women wearing whatever they choose. If you want to wear a traditionally sexy Halloween costume, by all means, please do it. I just want to give...
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Modest Mouse Comes to Charlottesville: A Review of their Latest Album
All photos taken by Jack Looney. Story by Allyson Cartwright On October 26 indie-rock band Modest Mouse performed their new album, “Strangers to Ourselves” at the Charlottesville nTelos Wireless...
View ArticleVictoria Stands Out at the Virginia Film Festival
Story by Allyson Cartwright A hidden gem emerged out of the 2015 Virginia Film Festival in the German flick Victoria. This year’s festival garnered its largest audience yet and featured some...
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U.Va Women Tell Stories of Their Bodies Through Photographs
These photos together comprise a portion of the exhibit Every Body, taken and curated by Iris Magazine intern Kendall Siewert. Each U.Va woman who volunteered for the project was accepted, and the...
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Blue mountain foothills and Ghosts of Slave Women: A Conversation with UVA...
Story by Carly Gorelick Please describe your involvement with the Women’s Center and Iris when you were a student. I don’t know where the Women’s Center is now, but when I was at UVA it was in an old...
View ArticleThe Vagina Monologues Tackle The Taboo
Story by Sammy Scheman I’m not usually speechless. I’m the type of person who always has a comment or opinion. That’s part of why I wanted to write articles – my friends were tired of hearing me talk....
View ArticleWork: Rihanna Brings the Basement Party Above Ground
Story by Kimia Nikseresht Just a few weeks after its official release, Rihanna’s newest reggae-inspired collaboration with Drake off of her new album “Anti” has already made its presence in...
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Top 5 Moments: How black actors “won” the Oscars without taking home a statue
Story by Allyson Cartwright The theme of this year’s Academy Awards was unofficially #OscarsSoWhite. For the second year in a row, there were zero black actors nominated for acting awards, despite the...
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UVA Men Tell Stories of Their Bodies Through Photographs
A word from the photographer, Kendall Siewert This project began because I believe in the power of people’s stories. When I first photographed women and their experiences with their bodies, I received...
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Discovering the Victorious Secret: Angela Lorenz and the Athleticism of...
Story By: Madeline Baker Women in Bikinis. Not exactly the first thing one thinks of when talking about the empowerment of women through sports. It was, however, the inspiration behind artist Angela...
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Truth-seeking in Junot Diaz and Salman Rushdie
Story by: Pinky Hossain On September 16, 2016, English majors, English professors, and literature lovers gathered together and fangirled because we had the opportunity to see both Junot Diaz and...
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It’s Hair, for God’s Sake
Story by: Lily Patterson Bleached and dyed and tugged and straightened and curled and dried and oiled and trimmed and chopped. It’s a cumulative result, a regenerative but at the very least temporally...
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The Perils of Dancing (a short story)
Story By: Pinky Hossain I am afraid of the dark. When I was young, I didn’t like to sleep because I feared those tiny little colorful beads we see when we turn off the lights. I couldn’t tell them...
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Story By: Taylor Lamb Sometimes I feel as though I need to start referring to myself as a “blackwoman,” one word, so people will stop trying to separate those two parts of my identity. This is a...
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Hair on the Brain
Story By: Lily Patterson For this installment I took to the streets (metaphorically speaking) to interview a few friends about their hair and the intrinsic and imposed identities those little bundles...
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How Art Can Save the World
Story By: Taylor Lamb Anti-Trump protest which took place in Las Vegas. Photo from Las Vegas Review Journal. If you have read any of my articles before this point, you can probably guess my political...
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Top 5 Shows to Binge-Watch Over Winter Break
Story By: Taylor Lamb Happy finals season! The beautiful time of year when the people who haven’t visited a library all semester (me) are suddenly there every night this week (me) and are getting dirty...
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What Eleven Students Wore to Alderman During Finals
Story By: Pinky Hossain Ah, it’s that time of year again, folks. When students all across Grounds from a myriad of different majors and years congregate at the libraries to frantically finish their...
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