Degrading someone based on the way that they speak communicates a larger judgment: what you have to say isn’t valuable.
Browsing: Perspective
Poetry has this capacity to describe the contradictory impulses and parts of our identity that don’t make sense, and publications like Hermes enable students to hear that from each other, where otherwise they may not.
Through the process of stellar nucleosynthesis, hydrogen atoms fused to form helium, which then fused to create beryllium and so on, until the fiery furnace of stars gave birth to elements up to carbon —- setting the scene for the events leading to all there is today.
I know how much I’ve appreciated being able to exist in these spaces. I’ve never really been able to tell them what this meant to me.
Even in the short moments of choosing who we sit next to and who we want to get to know beyond the surface level icebreaker questions, we’ve already subconsciously made up our minds, perhaps without even realising. Who we gravitate towards has lots to do with our perceptions of which crowd we belong in.
From cancer to suicide, uncomfortable silences work to isolate, making one feel as though their experience is too much for others. Language tends to fail in the face of life’s most difficult moments. If you’re not sure what to say to a loved one, that’s okay!
The ephemeral swish of trees, cars, and compressed air from the doors of the bus breaks the silence, but within the cacophony of noises, it’s still quiet.
I call all of my joy “queer” joy, because being queer is what pushed me towards seeking joy.
For International Women’s day, the modern sounds of the Princess of Pop juxtapose the Place de la République’s tall bronze statue of Marianne.
I have never heard such a distressed shriek in my entire life, a pitch so piercing it drowns the droning motor and pixelates the passersby. It replaces the air, gasping and incessant, yet everyone here pretends not to hear it.
