Dear Readers,
Welcome to our tenth issue of Voices & Visions centered around the theme of “Power.” The journal is excited to explore this topic through the pieces presented, which span from poem to prose, drawing to photography. This issue in particular has a range of pieces from both domestic and international women’s colleges and girl’s high schools, which we hope provide our audience with unique perspectives on this topic. The issue includes work from both students and their teachers, from Rwanda and Australia, as well as from women’s institutions throughout the United States. We hope that these international perspectives on power will be interesting and illuminating to our audience.
We exist today in a world that is fraught with issues around power: Who has it? How can we give others access to it when it has been denied to them before? What does it feel like to be under the power of others?These questions take on more resonance when they are answered by writers and artists from women’s colleges and high schools throughout the world. . Through these submissions, we hope to present a range of intersectional perspectives on power, ones that not only illuminate the negative aspects of power, but also the ways in in which power exists outside of human structures and norms, a reminder that solutions can still be found in our art.
Camille Butera
Editor-in-Chief
Table of Contents
The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit
Catherine Grace Seaver
Agnes Scott College, Decatur GA, USA
Factory on Grove Street
Gabriella Tucciarone
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
The Tower
Camille Butera
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
A Lack Thereof
Sarah Grissom
Mt. St. Michael’s College, Ashgrove, Queensland, Australia
A Seat at the Table
Elizabeth Wayua Ndinda
English Instructor at Akilah Institute, Kigali, Rwanda
Mary
Madeline McCurry
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
The Praise of Power
Sophie Kamariza
Akilah Institute, Kigali, Rwanda
for glory
Kerry LeCure
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
Open House
Jas Ganev
Castilleja School, Palo Alto CA, USA
Breaking Through
Hannah White
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
Remembering and Forgetting
Elizabeth Wayua Ndinda
English Instructor at Akilah Institute, Kigali, Rwanda
A Bird in Hand
Emma O’Neill-Dietel
Smith College, Northampton MA, USA
Burnt
Srinidhi Panchapakesan
Agnes Scott College, Decatur GA, USA
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