Then are we not the end, my love? For I love you more than stars love the night sky, Like the sun to the horizon, to you I come. You are the ground beneath my feet, ever solid, The shadow under my tenderest thoughts. A thousand years knows nothing of endurance Next to my eyesContinue reading “Love Poem #1”
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Gender Quotas in Government
The question of instating legislative gender quotas is a contentious point in the ever evolving feminist landscape. Do they ultimately work to dismantle the structures of the patriarchy, or merely operate within them? I think there is a case to be made that legislative gender quotas in governments are a necessary step in progressing towardContinue reading “Gender Quotas in Government”
On New Beginnings
How do we anchor ourselves when we are truly unmoored from where we used to belong? I’m an international student in the United States. I grew up in Southern Africa, which is where I spent the entirety of my formative years and completed my education. Like many to come before me, pursuing higher education inContinue reading “On New Beginnings”
On Pascal’s Wager
Pascal introduces an unconventional approach to the question of whether god exists. Pascal poses the inaugural notion that all information regarding the divine is inaccessible to humans, due to the scale of our separation. Having drawn this initial premise, he elucidates that the probability of God’s existence, which remains inaccessible to us, is comparable toContinue reading “On Pascal’s Wager”
On Anarchy
The state of nature, as conceptualized by political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, has become a safeguard against anarchic descent and has evolved to represent justification of the state as an institution. In deconstructing this hypothetical condition, it’s worth asking if this imaginary may be faulted. In this challenge emerges the broader question: does any satisfactory justification for the existence of the state exist?
On Outrunning Destiny
It appears that I am fated to become my father, to embody his bitter years of tragedy as my own. I remember the time before it, like a faded photograph that no longer reflects reality at present. In the pursuit of rejecting the stories we are to become, we all think we are special becauseContinue reading “On Outrunning Destiny”
Literary Musings 