What It Means to Be a Black, Indigenous, Latino
There is nothing more fragile in this world than a fragile White man—and that is, tragically, most of them.
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Claudia Lopez Lloreda
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
Embrace 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 Skop
- May 13, 2020
- 32 min
Love in a Pandemic—the Scientist and the Serviceman
In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.
Katiee McKinstry
- May 6, 2020
- 7 min
I 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-Núñez
- Apr 30, 2020
- 7 min
My Home Is In The City Of Flowers
I was not a blooming flower, but a colorful mushroom, beautiful in its own right.
Ying-He Celeste Lü
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
The 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 Vélez
- Jan 6, 2020
- 7 min
Blowing Away the Ivy Narrative
No 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 Zagorac
- Dec 30, 2019
- 5 min
On Cairo, Change, and Staying the Same
No sooner had I landed in Cairo after four long years of absence than I discovered my watch broke.
Linda Nhon
- Nov 30, 2019
- 10 min
I 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.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
- Nov 6, 2019
- 7 min
I’m Losing Count
The fellow student couldn’t even tell me what city their Croatian relatives were from. I was disappointed, it’s a small country after all.
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