Full Digitized Issues – The Indicator

Fall 2024

Categories: 2024 Fall, Full Digitized Issues
Categories: Gabby Avena, Mel Arthur, Sarah Wu

Cover of Fall Issue 2024 of Snack Time. Purple monster is eating cereal on yellow cover.

By MEL ARTHUR, SARAH WU, and GABBY AVENA The theme of Snack Time feels like a theme that needs to be shouted at the top of one’s lungs. Imagine if we all collectively went: SNACK TIME! SNACK TIME! SNACK TIME! over and over again, how disruptive that may seem but also how joyous. I like…Continue Reading Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Categories: Full Digitized Issues
Categories: Gabby Avena, Mel Arthur, Sarah Wu

the cover of the indicator. some objects are splayed against a brown cover.

By MEL ARTHUR, SARAH WU, and GABBY AVENA Mel Arthur:Once the theme of Thing Theory was suggested, I could hear everyone’s (including myself) mind go blank. The collective question of what even is Thing Theory permeated almost every meeting. Sarah even asked me to do a mock Q&A where I attempted, using my muse, Toni…Continue Reading Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Categories: 2023 Fall, Full Digitized Issues
Categories: Gabby Avena, Mel Arthur, Sarah Wu

a deformed body of a woman lying in a sky of blue

By SARAH WU, MEL ARTHUR, and GABBY AVENA Mel Arthur:Rot, in simultaneous existence with crumble, disintegrate, stain, decompose, corrupt, sink, worsen, wither, descend, fester, and spoil. To inhabit the space of terrible beauty where the world and the bodies that exist within it circle around what has been made absent. Rotted as an attempt to…Continue Reading Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Categories: 2023 Spring, Full Digitized Issues
Categories: Gabby Avena, Mel Arthur, Sarah Wu

a piece of artwork of a girl with patterned shapes around her

By SARAH WU, MEL ARTHUR, and GABBY AVENA Mel Arthur:I advocated for this theme within small circles of conversation partly because I know what it is like to feel reverence so profoundly, it becomes part of everyday existence. In reverence lies the essence of awe, of wonder, and as the dictionary adds, of respect. But…Continue Reading Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Categories: 2022 Fall, Full Digitized Issues

Editor’s Note By SARAH WU, MEL ARTHUR, and GABBY AVENA Mel Arthur:What do Bridges mean to me? I want to invoke Christopher Soto and what they wrote in the book titled Queer Poets of Color. They borrow a quote from Gloria E. Anzaldua, who writes, “Bridges are thresholds to other realities, archetypal, primal symbols of…Continue Reading Fall 2022

Spring 2022

Categories: 2022 Spring, Full Digitized Issues

Editor’s Note Dear Readers, Another semester, another issue! The writers, editors, and artists of The Indicator have worked so hard to create the issue you have now, and we are so proud of all the work they have done over the last few months. Having been members of The Indicator all four years of college,…Continue Reading Spring 2022

Fall 2021

Categories: 2021 Fall, Full Digitized Issues

Editor’s Note The term “passing” implies movement – shifts from one state to another. Whether that movement is temporal, spatial, emotional, or psychical, our lives are constituted by these transformative moments. Sometimes, the experiences of passing are subtle and elusive, occurring secretly or even subconsciously. Other times, the shifts are immediately recognized, felt intensely and…Continue Reading Fall 2021