[in]Visible Magazine

The pre-show ends; the lights dim; the audience shivers with antici…pation. There is no popcorn in sight, though some of us have packed a slice of toast. As the opening musical number begins, a pair of red lips fills the screen… and one of the live actors strides in front to begin a striptease. Welcome […]

    Photo Credit to Rupi Kaur You may have seen this picture recently doing the rounds on the internet, an image meant to provoke and raise questions about the taboos and restrictions surrounding menstruation – a part of many women’s life. While the censorship of the image by Instagram is controversial, I am much […]

  It’s almost spring break, which means it’s the perfect time to shove those textbooks aside and pull out some good old-fashioned Young Adult fiction.   I’m an incurable book recommender, but also the kind of book recommender who, as a second-semester junior, starts thinking she should have been a sociology major with a concentration […]

  For my sixteenth birthday, I convinced my mom to take me to our local Goodwill, where I picked out a nice button-down shirt and a pair of black slacks. I was delighted with my new fancy-occasion outfit; she was displeased that it had come pre-worn. Even now that I’m in a position to buy […]

  Image Source This past summer, some friends and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon 2. I hadn’t seen the first movie, but I had been assured it was good, so I was game. Some 102 minutes later, I walked out of the theater and announced, “All screenwriters should be fired.” Six […]

“She is always listening.” “Who is always listening?” I asked my Grandmother. It was the first time I had ever heard someone refer to God as “she.” I spent most of my childhood praying to a superman figure named “Father,” “Lord,” and sometimes, “The Big Guy Upstairs.” His picture loomed above my bed’s headboard.  In […]

  The first time I ever experienced a taiko performance I heard the deafening vibrations lapping against the walls, rippling in ever widening waves as they shook the ground beneath me. I was transfixed by the performance as the taiko players yelled while playing the odaiko, a drum about the size of a mini-fridge, and […]

  “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker Today is April 22, 2014, or Earth Day, as some people might realize only after looking at their calendars. Founded in the United States, Earth Day commemorates what was the start, according to many, of the environmental movement in 1970. […]

Art by Emily Audet. Click for full image.    I remember asking my mom when I was young why women could not be priests (as shown in the illustration above). She told me that in the past, women were seen as less powerful than men and were not allowed to hold leadership positions in the […]

  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 […]