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Embrace the ‘ands’
  • 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?
en Movimiento
  • Mar 26, 2020
  • 4 min

en Movimiento

Quería gritar: “¡SI, ACEPTO!” Pero traté de mantener la calma.
The Walls Will Fall One Day if We Keep Growing
  • 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.
On the Move
  • Mar 20, 2020
  • 4 min

On the Move

I wanted to yell and say: “YES I ACCEPT!” But I tried to be cool.
The Wild Calls. Am I Listening?
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • 6 min

The Wild Calls. Am I Listening?

My field site was adorned with loads and loads of herps and nobody can tell me otherwise.
Blowing Away the Ivy Narrative
  • Jan 7, 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.
The Lab is My Sanctuary
  • Nov 15, 2019
  • 15 min

The Lab is My Sanctuary

Even though I didn’t feel like I belonged, I was always more than happy to be there because it meant I didn’t have to be at home.
Across Borders and Seas
  • Aug 26, 2019
  • 5 min

Across Borders and Seas

I am caught between two generations and two homes. I am an immigrant in a world that does not want to remember.
Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
  • Jul 4, 2019
  • 6 min

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

Why did it happen at all? I’d never been a target before.
Of Places and Colors
  • Jun 20, 2019
  • 4 min

Of Places and Colors

I recalled that I too had faced the heat of racism but I had conveniently kept this hidden away in some corner of my mind.
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