Article Pieces
Interviews
Inside the Studio: A Conversation with Eunnuri Lee
Eunnuri Lee is a Korean-American interdisciplinary artist and activist whose work explores diaspora, Asian-American hybridity, and radical belonging. Through art and digital platforms, she reclaims fractured identities, emphasizing emotional honesty and collective liberation. Lee’s practice fosters communities that honor intersectional identities and uses storytelling as a tool for healing and connection.
Portrait of Marissa Perez
Marissa Perez, a Northampton native, is a creative writing student at Hampshire College, having earned the Glascock Poetry Prize from Mount Holyoke College in 2020 as a Holyoke Community College student. She credits her success to HCC’s supportive environment and professors like Fred Cooksey and Carolyn Zaikowski. Inspired by authors like Joan Didion and Hanya Yanagihara, Perez’s writing explores themes of identity and human connection. She encourages aspiring writers to embrace self-discovery and values community colleges like HCC for fostering growth.
Campus & Local Reporting
Honoring Latino Heritage History Month
In honor of Latino Heritage Month, Diamond Smith spoke with Raul Gutierrez (pictured), who is a Latinx Studies Professor at Holyoke Community College along with Carlos Malave and Eileen Kelley on their input and experience with starting the Latino International Students Association (LISA) club on the Holyoke Community College campus.
Keep On Food Truckin’
Nicole Ortiz, a culinary arts graduate, launched her food truck business, Crave, in August 2020 during the pandemic. Supported by Holyoke's EforAll program, she offers a diverse menu with tacos, rice balls, soups, and vegan options. The community’s positive response has fueled her plans to expand, with a goal of opening a restaurant and adding another truck next year.
Academic Weapon to Academic Victim: The Downfalls of Student Perfectionism
The struggles of perfectionism in college, what it means through the lens of being an "academic weapon" and how to navigate through the troubles of self discovery, emotional struggles, and our needs as twenty-something year old’s.
“Empowered women empower women”: Highlighting Kappa Phi Lambda
In 2020, many lost their social lives due to the pandemic, which made an already difficult environment as a freshman in college that much harder. This was the case for Sarah Park, former president of Kappa Phi Lambda (KPL), who was an incoming freshman to the University of Massachusetts at the time. How KPL created a legacy that impacted through sisterhood.
Cultural Criticism / Personal Essays
Before the Womb Was Erased
A critical reflection on how grief, silence, and resistance are embodied by historical and mythological women—Antigone, Venus, and Boudica. Drawing from theorists like Judith Butler, Saidiya Hartman, and Silvia Federici, the essay explores whose lives are deemed “grievable,” how women's stories are erased or manipulated in archives, and how reclaiming their narratives becomes an act of defiance and remembrance.