The Blue and White Magazine
Mariah Barrera
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...
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The Blue and White Magazine
Casey Rogerson
By Victor Omojola Illustration by Jorja Garcia Casey Rogerson, CC ’24, doesn’t really work alone. This is not to say that the Bucks...
Muni Suleiman
Olivia Treynor
By Muni Suleiman Olivia Treynor, BC ’24, plays a version of Scrabble that transcends the dictionary. “I just think it makes it so much...
Miska Lewis
Kit Malloy
by Miska Lewis Earlier this semester, pink flyers popped up across Columbia’s buildings advertising “Mother Tongue’s Inaugural Picnic:...
Vivien Sweet
Mariame Sissoko
by Vivien Sweet There is an uncanny preference for the acronym at Barnard. Within the CCIS, the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary...
Andrea Contreras
Nyra Wise and Tandile Jackson-Vinson
By Andrea Contreras In the otherwise quiet Milstein Library, Nyra Wise, BC ’24, and Tandile Jackson-Vinson, BC ’24, found themselves bent...
Muni Suleiman
Samara Huckvale
By Muni Suleiman The opening sequence of Them (2023) features main character Ira’s vibrant pink boots, jacket, hair, and hat, contrasting...
Sofia Pirri
Chambit Miller
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...
Stephen Dames
Renny Gong
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...
Becky Miller
Vanessa Tasé Sueiro
By Becky Miller If you are searching for Vanessa Tasé Suiero, as people in Morningside Heights often are, she can usually be found at...
Madison Hu
Maya Castronovo
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...
Kelsey Kitzke
Joey Recker
By Kelsey Kitzke I first met Joey Recker, CC ’23, in the Barnard anthropology class The Politics of Care, where we spent a semester...
Schuyler Daffey
Mazen Alsafi
By Schuyler Daffey Mazen Alsafi, CC ’23, enters Joe’s Coffee with assured strides. It is, undeniably, the walk of a runway model. Alsafi...
Molly Leahy
Naomi Rubin
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...
Victor Omojola
Sophie Paquette
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...
Dominy Gallo
Mae Butler
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...
Muni Suleiman
Charitie Ropati
By Muni Suleiman Charitie Ropati, SEAS ’23, first visited the Met in her freshman year, seeking threads of representations of their...
Becky Miller
Delaney Wellington
By Becky Miller Picture a 20-year-old Delaney Wellington, BC ’23, sitting at a side-of-the-highway bar in Nashville, waiting for her turn...
Sophie Poole
Gustie Owens
By Sophie Poole ‘Bechdeltest’ is a word Gustie Owens, BC ’22, wants to use in a future crossword puzzle. (The Bechdel test evaluates...
Becky Miller
Fergus Campbell
By Becky Miller The night of the tree lighting—a glamorous Columbia tradition where the whole university gathers on College Walk to watch...
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