in this autoethnography, uci graduate student ryan "flaco" rising recounts in prose the development of his prison traumatic stress disorder within the violent world of the california prison system; the inclusion of his poetry above each section is like a parallel voice in the darkness: a constant and simple effort to sing.

uci undergraduate mia aburto explores ballet's dark side.

integrating research and personal experience, uci undergraduate kayla jackson explores the cultural obsession with "thin" bodies and its impact on women's health.

With his multimedia, autoethnographic essay, UC Irvine graduate student and artist Alberto Lule shows what is possible in undergraduate writing. Identifying with the Palestinian American writer Edward Said, Lule explores what it felt like to be the child of Mexican immigrants and later the incarcerated adult who, “exiled in his own land,” finds himself through education.