Grey Matters UMD - Spring 2025
Welcome to our Spring 2025 issue! Click below to read!
Editors Note
This marks Grey Matters UMD’s second issue. Over the past year, we’ve watched this journal sharpen its voice, leaning more confidently into questions that don’t always have clear answers. This issue reflects this very process.
We open with “The Tightropes of Thought: Balancing Cognitive Rigidity and Adaptability” by Trisha Salkalkale, a piece that asks what it really means to stay open—to uncertainty, to contradiction, to change. This invitation to turn inward then weaves through all that follows.
Inside, you’ll find writing that spans the philosophical, the clinical, and the personal. Some pieces unravel ideas you thought you knew; others open up new ground entirely. There’s writing that experiments, writing that observes, and writing that lingers long after the last sentence. What connects them is the sense that every piece is reaching for something honest.
We are both so proud of our last run and of the team that made it possible. It’s been a privilege to help shape this journal in its debut, and we’re excited to leave it in strong hands.
Signing off,
Shree Bhattacharya and Emma Benjamin
