Category: Lhya Munive
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Everything Tastes Better than Skinny Feels
Read more: Everything Tastes Better than Skinny FeelsPhoto by Casa Propia Colombia TW: Eating disorders Food permeates my mind. All the time. Growing up in Colombia, especially in the coastal region, I learned to associate food with community and celebration. On birthdays, my grandmother and great-grandmother would set the alarm for 5 in the morning to start the preparations for the event.…
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Unit 29 Writes Back
Read more: Unit 29 Writes BackTW: Depression, death, suicide When the director of Mississippi Prison Writing Louis Bourgeois contacted our magazine for possible coverage of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison, a collection of personal vignettes and poems written by men incarcerated at Mississippi State Penitentiary, we were beyond honoured to take upon his request. I had been somewhat aware…
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You Do Not Have to Be Good: On Female Rage
Read more: You Do Not Have to Be Good: On Female RageJudith Beheading Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi “You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.” Wilde Geese, Mary Oliver Rage (n.) is defined in the Cambridge English dictionary as “extreme or violent anger”. Similarly, Merriam-Webster phrases it as a “violent or uncontrolled anger”.…
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Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!
Read more: Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!In October, there is nothing better than curling up on the couch under a velvety, rusty-orange blanket with a cup of Autumn Storm tea—except, perhaps, doing it while watching your favourite Halloween movie. Here at Writer’s Block, we have been looking forward to this time of year since the start of the academic calendar. Our…
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The Homes and Houses of Memorial
Read more: The Homes and Houses of MemorialThis article contains spoilers of the novel discussed. Through the university’s English program and the Crossing Border Festival, I had the pleasure to interview Bryan Washington, author of the best book I’ve read this year: Memorial. The novel had been on my to-be-read list for a long time already, having heard of it for the…