Dear reader,

When we stepped into our new roles of editors-in-chief in August, we were excited to learn more about you and our community as a whole: more about the rich array of topics you’ve studied throughout your academic career, more about the independent research you might have performed over the summer, more about anything that makes you go down that Wikipedia rabbit hole at 3 a.m. The insight present not only in the essays published in this issue but in each of the (record-breaking number of) submissions we received this fall serves as a testament to the diversity of thought present in Hamilton’s student body. We learned that, whether they’re discussing a piece of literature or analyzing social structures, our community is not afraid to challenge their reader or to ask nuanced questions.
 

The essays accepted for publication this semester demonstrate a desire for academic exploration and for
subverting conventional ideologies. Each essay embodies the ideals that we were created upon, ideals that we hope to uphold in in every issue of Suture: publishing thought-provoking, original, and insightful interdisciplinary writing. Morgan Hodorowski’s essay about omenology in Shin
Godzilla draws upon works by Rudolf Wagner and Elizabeth Oyler to reimagine Godzilla himself as an omen of bbureaucracy. Hodorowski’s second essay, “Passivity in Governance: Politicizing Griselda,” analyzes how Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale presents Griselda as much more than a character by painting her passivity as a means of ascertaining the ideal government. Josue Herrera Rivera’s “The Making of a Latina GirlBoss” discusses how financial literacy programs in Mexico further perpetuate the social stratification of marginalized communities due to their neoliberal foundations. Deanna Durben’s essay explores how the social construction of autism increases its stigmatization, which consequently impacts the co-occurrence rates of anxiety and depression. We hope that you are able to adopt a critical lens and appreciate the value of the interdisciplinary scholarship and elegant prose contained within these pages. Above all, we are so proud of this issue, and we want you to love it, too.

 

Happy reading,
Alison and Cait