Author: Gabrielle Stearns

Prior to this semester, I thought of reading as exclusively text-based. I understood that text could suggest images, metaphor, and other sensory experiences, but I primarily thought of words on a page. I now understand that anything that transmits ideas can be read. Reading is more of an analysis than comprehension. Queerness can be read… Continue reading Reading Journal 14 – Gabrielle Stearns

I am very interested in journalism, so I would have like to read and analyze more news articles and broadcasts. We did this a little bit when we looked at headlines, but I would have loved a deeper dive. I read a New York Times article a few weeks ago about three different trans adolescents… Continue reading Reading Journal 11 – Gabrielle Stearns

I have chosen the word “body” My definition – the physical form of humans and animals or an adjective describing the main bulk of an entity, such as a body of text. I plan on making a powerpoint where text is side-by-side with videos of me dancing. I have never seen something in this exact… Continue reading Reading Journal 10 – Gabrielle Stearns

My midterm essay was about a section from the end of Small Beauty. The most difficult part of reading this novel for me was following the confusing timeline, but it was also the literary tool that I found made the novel the most interesting. I focused my paper on how the past interacted with the… Continue reading Reading Journal 8 – Gabrielle Stearns

This weekend, I made me and my girlfriend’s Halloween costumes. We were the moon and stars, so I decorated headbands with crystals, stars, moons, and glitter to make tiaras. I love to craft, but have started monetizing my art in the last few years, which makes it feel less recreational. It was nice to take… Continue reading Reading Journal 7 – Gabrielle Stearns

New York Times: Wildfire Smoke is Erasing Progress on Clean Air This article was written for the New York Times by Mira Rojanasakul in September. It is written in the wake of several years of bad wildfires around the world. This headline is effectively a scapegoat. Wildfire smoke is being blamed for problems of air… Continue reading Reading Journal 4 – Gabrielle Stearns

It is easier to begin with the ways I disidentify with Mei than how I identify with her. We are different races; Mei is Asian and I am white. Our gender is the same, but I am cisgender and Mei is transgender. These two details alone make our experiences living in the world and interacting… Continue reading Journal 3 – Gabrielle Stearns

My name is Gabrielle and I am a senior double major in Dance and Human Health. I went to a performing arts high school where I took creative writing classes for all four years. I graduated from the program as a proficient but reluctant fiction writer. Fiction is the genre I love to read, so… Continue reading Gabrielle Stearns