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Still Holding Privilege
An examination of the process of recognizing privilege I identify as a white, homosexual, woman. In the past, I have felt more often than...

Emily Polston
Nov 22, 20173 min read
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Magic in a Mug
An Ode to My Cup of Joe In the morning I wake and drag myself into the kitchen. eyes hardly open, shoulders slumped, I press the ‘on’...

Emily Polston
Nov 22, 20172 min read
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This I Believe
An Ode to My Mother My mother has a gift, an ever-endearing charm. This power, I hope to behold, has been lovingly deemed “Somethin’...

Emily Polston
Nov 22, 20172 min read
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Cultural Plunge
I live in a bubble. A constant comfort zone of whiteness of passing of privilege. My life is spent watching, curious of the unknown,...

Emily Polston
Nov 22, 20171 min read
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Feminine Mystique
I have always considered myself to be a feminist. As a third-grader I wrote to George W. Bush, an infuriated letter regarding an...

Emily Polston
Nov 22, 20173 min read
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Kitchen
A poem detailing my life as I existed it in the space of the kitchen. It was in the kitchen where my mother loaded the dishwasher as I...

Emily Polston
Nov 21, 20175 min read
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Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
An attempt to interact with the scholarly work of Eve Tuck and Wayne K. Yang Thesis In Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, Tuck and Yang...

Emily Polston
Nov 21, 20172 min read
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The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
An attempt to form an understanding of the work of Susan Schweik. Thesis In this article, Schewick suggests that nation, race, and...

Emily Polston
Nov 21, 20172 min read
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