Dear Readers,
Welcome to the ninth edition of Voices & Visions Literary Journal, themed “Perspectives.” This theme is specifically important to our journal this season, as we have brought in three new staff members, all Smithies: Kayla Sylvia, Martha Terry, and Lily Sendroff. Expanding our staff has added new ideas and points of view to the journal. This year, Voices & Visions has relocated to Smith College’s Lewis Global Studies Center, and we hope that new contacts there will expand our international reach. This past season, we were read by readers in over 110 different countries.
This issue has some exciting art, media, poetry, and prose from both girls’ high schools and women’s colleges. In the selection process, it was especially interesting to see the many directions in which our featured artists and writers took the theme of Perspectives. Perspectives can be imagined through points of view, through experiences, identities, through words and images. Additionally, the perspective you bring as an audience is crucial to how you interpret a piece, and openness to new perspectives leads to unique new insights.
We hope that our journal can act as a forum for these different perspectives, and that the works we present will allow you, our readers, to reflect on and expand your own perspectives.
Faith De Castro, Issue #9 Editor-in-Chief
Table of Contents
College Students and Alums
Mya Alexice, Barnard College, USA
Self Portraits and Ravishing Disunities
Lucy Liu, Smith College, USA
Madeline Olson, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Emma O’Neill-Dietel, Smith College, USA
Bethany Velarde, Agnes Scott College, USA
Emma Sachs, Agnes Scott College, USA
That Rule Was Begging To Be Broken
Olivia Handoko, Smith College, USA
Kate Bruncati, Smith College, USA
High School Students
Xiaohan Sun, The Baldwin School, USA
Smiley and More: A Photo Series
Katie Tsai, The Winsor School, USA
Julia Kirsch, Castilleja School, USA
Jas Ganev, Castilleja School, USA
Night Traffic and Alienated Universe
Frannie DiBona, Castilleja School, USA
Rhea Jain, The Baldwin School, USA
Allison Bartholomeo, Fontbonne Hall Academy, USA
