Personal
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.
“We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized…
Last year, when friends asked me to do Dry January with them, I refused. No…
As the temperatures dipped below freezing in Chicago, my family and I braved the cold…
It’s a Wednesday afternoon. Sunlight rolls through the back windows into the classroom. The city…
As a professional contemporary dancer, I’m a master of falling so it is ironic that…
I. Suspicion A few years ago I was approached by a coworker from another department…
As I mark a new age, I imagine what I’d tell myself thirteen years ago…
As we approach the Fourth of July, I find myself reflecting on another, lesser-known celebration:…
I. Before, in October This is usually how I convince my body to fall asleep:…
Community Does It is a non-profit organization that applies Community-Based Participatory Action Research methods (CBPAR)…
It was a hell-hot southwest Louisiana day. I had just left the investment property my…
Studies say there are five love language types in the world: words of affirmation, acts…
XinYi, originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, moved to Dallas, Texas at the age of 7,…
