There is an obsession with cowboys in the Farrago office. We are of the belief that anything can be a Western, especially in our modern-day life at this god-forsaken university. When you find yourself knee-deep in readings, three weeks behind content, or falling asleep in a lecture, ask yourself what Mitski asks: “What would a swaggering cowboy riding into this town do in this situation?”
The theme of Edition Four is 'Be the Cowboy.' The subjects of our motley pages include lone rangers leaving academia, the erasure of minorities that haunts old Hollywood nostalgia, and trans folks who turn over their memories and realise they’re not really (and never were) the cowboy they were always told to be. Our pages are confused, our pages are in control, our pages are anxious, our pages are camp.
“Be the cowboy you wish to see in the world,” Mitski says. It’s what we’ve tried to do with these pages.
Rope’em, tie’em, hold’em down and ride’em. Giddy up Cowboy.
