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What would life be like if we all truly believed we would be loved no matter what?
I don’t remember when I first tried alcohol. But I do remember the smell of…
The government has released what would seem to be the remaining 80,000 documents concerning the…
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.
In Elia Kazan’s 1954 film, On the Waterfront, Terry Malloy, a disgraced prize-fighter, reduced to…
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:…
