[in]Visible Magazine

We’re back for the [in]Visible Magazine playlist, round two! For this week’s playlist we delve into the theme of leaving. Songs about a lover leaving without a word. Songs about missing someone who left you. Songs about breakups and the past.  Songs about leaving your partner emotionally. Songs about leaving your partner physically. Whether looking […]

Talking to people every day takes a lot out of me. I usually enjoy my interactions, but lately I’ve realized that what makes them draining is how much time I invest in vetting and censoring myself. Some of this vetting revolves around me ensuring that whatever I say is sensitive and conducive to creating a […]

I attended the Claremont Colleges’ annual Take Back the Night march on April 9 as a member of  Scripps Advocates for Sexual Assault, an on-campus group that runs a 12-hour-a-day crisis warmline, to show support with other advocates and survivors of sexual assault/abuse from the five colleges. We gathered outside Big Bridges as it got […]

Once again, we’re at that point in the LASPA Center search process where we await an announcement of who has been selected as director for the center, which has been slated to launch later this year. I remember, however, the controversy and confusion that resulted from last year’s search, which was terminated in its last […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  When the high school students in Denver took to the streets to protest the changes to make their history curriculums more patriotic, they were making a point that, as Eugene Debs put it, “intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.” Progress, from this viewpoint, is created by people who actively disagree with the system […]

    Image Source Before I start describing how I feel about a certain issue – it might be better for you to first understand the issue. Here is Buzzfeed to the rescue, with a handy article comparing the prices of women’s products to men’s products. http://www.buzzfeed.com/maitlandquitmeyer/lady-products-that-cost-more-than-their-male-counterparts#2soimul As a female consumer, Buzzfeed’s article was not […]

“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 […]

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 […]