Perspectives

Academically, it felt like going from a bustling city to a sparsely populated town.

Birds flock together for safety and community; Black female birders MUST do the same and for similar reasons.

By the way, most cats don’t have last names, but our Sesame does, and it’s Cat, just like me!

“Quando è stata l’ultima volta che hai visto un finlandese in televisione per aver fatto qualcosa di grande?”. La mia risposta fu “Mai”.

“When was the last time you saw a Finn on the television for doing something big?”. My answer was “never”.

There is nothing more fragile in this world than a fragile White man—and that is, tragically, most of them.

My love for physics had grown to the point that I knew I wanted to pursue a Ph.D., but I never had the chance to tell DDay.

No puede ser, esto está mal. Era dirigido a otra Nicole. Ya mismo me llega otro email diciendo que fue un error.

It became clear to me that home was not something permanent, no matter how desperately I wanted that to be true.

How would I be able to juggle these different identities—graduate student, writer, and Puerto Rican— without one infringing upon the other?