Yoshida Dormitory, Dining Room Drama, and Transsexual Feminism
Volume 47 Issue 3 — September 29, 2023
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Featured Pieces
For Indy World, Lola Simon B’24 writes about Yoshida Dormitory as a self-governed community and center of student activism, and how Kyoto University has been trying to shut it down.
“The Yoshida residents are not just fighting to save their building, but are fighting to save the community they have built over the past century, one that is grounded in student freedom and expression.” Read more here.
In Lit for Issue 3, Lydia Riess B’24 writes “Table Manners,” a screenplay that explores simmering tensions as old friends host a dinner party, contending with their intertwined pasts and dissolving or lost futures.
“So the thing with hamsters is that they eat their young. It's very sad.” Read her piece here.
In a collaboration between Arts and Feats this week, Kolya Shields B’24 explores curses, mirrors, pregnancy, and Lee Edelman’s “reproductive futurism” through a reading of two novels: Allie Rowbottom’s Jell-O Girls & Emma Cline’s The Guest.
“The woman’s body is always already lacking, meant not to simply exist, but instead bear The Child, and with it, the future.” Read her piece here.
Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Week in Review
Week in Fake Families and Shopping Around — by Madeline Canfield B’24 & Jane Wang B’24
Ephemera
Shallow — by Sabrina Zhang R’26
List
Strategies for International Student Success — by Kathy Wang B’25
Metro
Rights, Unguarded — by Dri de Faria B’26, Cameron Leo B’25 & Nicholas Miller B’24
Understanding the Agreement — by Sacha Sloan B’23.5
S&T
A Shucking Revelation — by Caleb Stutman-Shaw B’25
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[Untitled] — by Joshua Koolik B’24
Dear Indy
The Can and Can’t Hangs — by Solveig Asplund B’24
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