Devon Coady

Hello everyone! The concept of authority is one that has been circling my ASTU class since the first day. What is authority? Who has the right to authority? Where does this authority come from? We have been relating the notion of authority to the expressing of culture and history through stories, memoirs and narratives. Marjane Satrapi of the graphic narrative Persepolis, establishes in an interview that her authority to write about growing up during the Iran/Iraq war is justified due to her first-hand experience of these events. However, authority on recollecting…read more

Hey readers! ‘Home’ can have many meanings and it can be attached to a multitude of things. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about my home and what home is for others. This is because the most common question you’re asked in the first month of university is “Where are you from?”. I have had the luxury of creating connections and building relationships with people from all over the world. No matter how different our lives have been, we all seem to have one very common theory; our home…read more