Issue 1 (2023)
Deerfield is the journal of the Boston University Writing Program. Each issue publishes a sampling of the best undergraduate work composed by students in our courses. Our name is inspired by Deerfield Street, adjacent to the Writing Program building.
Issue 1 (2023)
Table of Contents
Writing
Sobs From A Girl Not Too Far Gone | Esther Besson (poetry)
Role of the Ribbon: Sex and Male Power Entangled | Lauren Dang (essay)
Erasing the Stigma attached to Surrogacy with Newborn Photography | Natalia Deren (essay)
The Depletion of the Survival, Population, and Preservation of Culture for Women in the Navajo Tribe as a Result of Climate Change | Arya Gupta (essay)
Transgender Social Media Isn’t Just Toxic, It’s Necessary | Hazel McLaughlin (op-ed) | Prize Project Award
What I Know About Basketball | Clara Montes (personal essay)
Misogynoir in Media: How the Public’s Reaction to “WAP” Impacts Black Women | Taylor Needleman (essay)
Ballet: A Cursed and Complicated Beauty | Lily O’Hara (essay) | Tony Wallace Award for Writing Excellence
The Latino Vote is Not a Monolith | Nayeli Quiles (op-ed) | Prize Project Award
Philip Guston: An Everlasting Contemporary Artist | Vignesh Somjit (essay)
Podcasts
Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety and Why We Need to Talk about it Beyond Language | Xueting (Emma) Li | Prize Project Award
The Crazy Horse Memorial | Will Maharry
Extras
Favorite part of the writing process
Thoughts on the rising popularity of ChatGPT
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