[in]Visible Magazine

  I grew up in the Silicon Valley, surrounded by a rising group of immigrants with rigorous backgrounds in science and engineering. Their kids—my generation—would, for the most part, follow in their footsteps. Through college, I have followed a very similar path, albeit after much convincing that I was pursuing the sciences because I wanted […]

  Jeanette Nolan in Macbeth (1948) “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” vows Lady Macbeth as she prepares to convince her husband to murder the King of Scotland. It is a line and a scene that I have pondered for far too long, caught up in my attempt to reconcile her aggressive […]

  I remember being a high-school student, just beginning to foray into the possibilities of my future, when our career counselor explained to us that we would all be taking a survey to determine our personalities and the career options that best fit them. I distinctly recall being slightly unnerved. Sure, I was a little […]

 Source At times, I think that an important linguistic distinction between assimilation and appropriation becomes lost amid our much-needed discussion about the fluidity of culture. Perhaps when, in the same argument, we start using two connotatively different words that both begin with ‘A’ and have five syllables, their distinctions become blurred. I’m really not sure, […]

I was attempting to explain the importance of visibility during one of our blog’s staff meetings last week, when one of our snarkier (and much-loved) bloggers pointedly reminded me that our magazine was, after all, entitled [in]Visible. I laughed it off after a rather pregnant pause; however, it reminded me that despite working with [in]Visible […]