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The Newly Discovered JFK Records: We Hope to Learn What We Already Know

The government has released what would seem to be the remaining 80,000 documents concerning the…

The fucking apple.

It all goes back to that stupid fucking apple. Thousands and thousands of years of men having no accountability and women being blamed for everything. All because of a story about an apple.

The Gold Watch

In Elia Kazan’s 1954 film, On the Waterfront, Terry Malloy, a disgraced prize-fighter, reduced to…

I Got an X-Men Tattoo to Get Me Through Trump 2.0

Since Trump’s second inauguration, I’ve been in an anxious and depressive spiral. Trump’s executive orders, and many yet-to-be-enacted proposals outlined in Project 2025, personally affect me and my family. As the child of immigrants from China, I am not sure which I’m more afraid of: the ending of birthright citizenship, or the increase in Sinophobic rhetoric across the political landscape resulting in violence or death. 

The Reasons Why “True Love” Need Not Remain Forever

“We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized…

The 5 questions that helped me drink less and live better

Last year, when friends asked me to do Dry January with them, I refused. No…

What “Wicked” might mean for my daughter’s Black skin

As the temperatures dipped below freezing in Chicago, my family and I braved the cold…

One Day We Will All Be Migrants

It’s a Wednesday afternoon. Sunlight rolls through the back windows into the classroom. The city…

For the Love of Falling

As a professional contemporary dancer, I’m a master of falling so it is ironic that…

Terfs Are Not Feminists

I. Suspicion A few years ago I was approached by a coworker from another department…

A Birthday Story: Practicing Self-Compassion

As I mark a new age, I imagine what I’d tell myself thirteen years ago…

What Third Culture Kids Can Teach Us About Being Americans

As we approach the Fourth of July, I find myself reflecting on another, lesser-known celebration:…

Thoughts on Finding Sleep, Before & After Fatherhood

I. Before, in October This is usually how I convince my body to fall asleep:…

The Grip of Gratitude

The first time I met her, I was seven weeks old. Summoned by a whispered…

Public Health with Community Does It

Community Does It is a non-profit organization that applies Community-Based Participatory Action Research methods (CBPAR)…