Tahira AnwarJul 3, 20207 minI Thought Finland Was Home, but My Heart Said No“When was the last time you saw a Finn on the television for doing something big?”. My answer was “never”.
Mani-Jade GarciaJun 28, 202010 minWhat It Means to Be a Black, Indigenous, LatinoThere is nothing more fragile in this world than a fragile White man—and that is, tragically, most of them.
Claudia Lopez LloredaMay 18, 20204 minEmbrace the ‘Ands’How would I be able to juggle these different identities—graduate student, writer, and Puerto Rican— without one infringing upon the other?
Ahna SkopMay 13, 202032 minLove in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the ServicemanIn a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.
Katiee McKinstryMay 6, 20207 minI Don’t Want to be Cassandra “It’s just the flu,” they would tell me. These were people who had received higher education, some of whom even work in local hospitals.
Leonora Martínez-NúñezApr 30, 20207 minMy Home Is In The City Of FlowersI was not a blooming flower, but a colorful mushroom, beautiful in its own right.
Ying-He Celeste LüMar 24, 20204 minThe Walls Will Fall One Day if We Keep Growing“The Wall” — local people like to address it this way. To locals, the mere length or the grandeur of it does not ring any bells.
Nicole E. Félix VélezJan 7, 20207 minBlowing Away the Ivy NarrativeNo way, this is a mistake. This email is probably directed to another Nicole. I’ll get a second email soon saying it was a mistake.
Luna ZagoracDec 30, 20195 minOn Cairo, Change, and Staying the SameNo sooner had I landed in Cairo after four long years of absence than I discovered my watch broke.
Linda NhonNov 30, 201910 minI Got Kicked Out Of a Lab, and Three Lessons I Derived from It...feelings of failure are physical. I threw up my dinner that night, I could not stop crying, and my body would not stop trembling.