By Josh Kazali Illustration by Phoebe Wagoner On Nov. 5, 2024, Dylan Baca, CC ’25, was driving through Northern Arizona. It had been a...

By Dominic Wiharso Illustration by Li Yin As I launched into a lengthy question, Renee Morales, CC ’25, gently interrupted me,...

By Dominic Wiharso Illustration by Kathleen Halley Segal We slipped into Watson Hall undetected by her in-progress senior thesis class....

By Maya Lerman I had heard about Atish Saha, GS ’24, through my grapevine of idealistic film major friends long before I got the chance...

By Shreya Khullar A young girl, armed with a camera and a red baseball cap, marches through a gentrified world. Her walk is split between...

By Victor Omojola Illustration by Jorja Garcia Casey Rogerson, CC ’24, doesn’t really work alone. This is not to say that the Bucks...

By Muni Suleiman Olivia Treynor, BC ’24, plays a version of Scrabble that transcends the dictionary. “I just think it makes it so much...

by Miska Lewis Earlier this semester, pink flyers popped up across Columbia’s buildings advertising “Mother Tongue’s Inaugural Picnic:...

by Vivien Sweet There is an uncanny preference for the acronym at Barnard. Within the CCIS, the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary...

By Andrea Contreras In the otherwise quiet Milstein Library, Nyra Wise, BC ’24, and Tandile Jackson-Vinson, BC ’24, found themselves bent...

By Muni Suleiman The opening sequence of Them (2023) features main character Ira’s vibrant pink boots, jacket, hair, and hat, contrasting...

By Sofia Pirri On Aug. 26, 2023, Chambit Miller, CC ’24, was at a fried chicken restaurant in Lima. Surrounded by her Peruvian lover and...

By Stephen Dames I first met Renny Gong, CC ’24, two years ago while attending a potluck dinner for new members of 4x4 Magazine. Sitting...

By Becky Miller If you are searching for Vanessa Tasé Suiero, as people in Morningside Heights often are, she can usually be found at...

By Madison Hu Pupin 428. 4 p.m. Green chalkboards peek out from behind a large projector screen. Popcorn sits precariously in my lap. My...

By Kelsey Kitzke I first met Joey Recker, CC ’23, in the Barnard anthropology class The Politics of Care, where we spent a semester...

By Schuyler Daffey Mazen Alsafi, CC ’23, enters Joe’s Coffee with assured strides. It is, undeniably, the walk of a runway model. Alsafi...

By Molly Leahy Mr. Dong, a washed up high school teacher, wants desperately to be “in” with his students. When an offer to share his...

By Victor Omojola The first time I met Sophie Paquette, CC ’23, she told me a story. She spoke of a girl named Belladonna from a small...

By Dominy Gallo When I met Mae Butler, CC ’21, then ’22, then ’23, she was embroidering flowers on a denim jacket in the John Jay 11...