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Show Some Skin | Thursday, March 21, 2019
Let it roar. The fire within me burns. It is alive and breathing It flickers, feeding of the gray and heavy air. It grows in my lungs My veins reaching out, gasping for air. They contract and constrict with every flicker Yelling out. It spreads upwards, up my trachea. You see, it is
Gabriel Niforatos | Monday, March 4, 2019
The first time I saw Show Some Skin, it resonated with me on a deep level. One of the things that struck me the hardest was that there were other students just like me on campus, students who did not fit the “Notre Dame stereotype,” students who look like you and me. Students who are
Erin Swope | Thursday, February 21, 2019
For eight years running, “Show Some Skin” has challenged its audience to think about how race, gender, sexuality, class and other aspects of identity impacts the Notre Dame community. Each night from Wednesday through Saturday at 7 p.m. in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, “Show Some Skin” will once again challenge students, faculty and community
Show Some Skin | Thursday, November 29, 2018
I first saw Show Some Skin during my freshman year. It was a powerful performance that I didn’t expect to find at Notre Dame, of all places. I wanted to get involved in some aspect, so I reached out the fall of my sophomore year to the executive producer, who I’d had a class with
Show Some Skin | Thursday, October 25, 2018
The last few years have culminated in a combative atmosphere that has been all but unifying, open and understanding in regards to salient issues of identity. In fact, it’s caused most of us to retreat, to sink back and to put up our walls and remain defensive. Sometimes, defending ourselves is the safest option. Sometimes,
Show Some Skin | Thursday, October 4, 2018
For as long as you can remember, your father always told you that you could do even better. He wanted you to grow and so he’d always remind you of the room you had for it. He taught you to read when you were three and signed you up for piano lessons at four. Every
Show Some Skin | Thursday, September 20, 2018
The use of Latinx is intended as a gender-neutral term. It is also used in contrast to Hispanics as a way to encompass anyone from Latin American origin or ancestry. It is in no way meant to offend anyone. Although not the official term, Latinxs is used as the plurality form of Latinx. The celebration
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Each spring for the past seven years, through a series of performed, anonymous monologues, Notre Dame’s “Show Some Skin” has provoked and encouraged its audiences to reflect on issues of identity and difference, especially as they intersect with race, gender, class, sexual violence, LGBTQ+ life and mental health. Yet as Samuel Jackson, a junior who
Observer Staff Report | Friday, August 31, 2018
Show Some Skin and student government have partnered to lead “Notre Dame: Unfiltered” to connect students with campus resources surrounding important issues, the organizations announced in a press release Thursday. According to the release, the event “will share stories of identity and direct students to the many resources regarding race, socioeconomic status, sexual violence, mental
Show Some Skin | Thursday, August 23, 2018
My name is Mara. I am in the recovery phase of my eating disorder. While gone are the days of obsessively weighing myself every morning, driving my finger as deeply into my throat as possible or gulping down some laxatives I once convinced myself were safe — the bottle indicated things like “herbal” and “all-natural,”