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Reflections on Life with Muscular Dystrophy

I sighed as I trudged across school towards biology class, with a heavy backpack and…

Where to find God? In math, love, the church, the backseat of a car, or the minds of children?

God and math: in my mind, they are connected, and here’s why. Math is formulaic,…

From Burnout to Thriving as a Working Mother: How Working Part-Time is Essential to My Well-Being

“What if you are meant to feel the world as inhospitable, unfriendly, off-track in just…

Brown Eyes

Brown Eyes Can I confide in you about a hesitancy that shadows me? Let me…

The bag of the silver-headed woman

This is not a story of sadness, but rather one real story of how not…

Parenting in the In-between space

He was 11 years old. He was skinny and tall, with a head full of…

“I Don’t See Colour”

Colour-blindness is the belief that there are no differences between different races and ethnicities; therefore,…

As a Child of the Diaspora, Loss is Part of My Identity

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken out about the unprecedented immigration challenges at…

A Letter To My 7-month old Daughter

Dear Zahra, On your seven-month birthday, a super massive black hole was seen at the…

It’s Okay to Cry: Grieving as an Asian American

The United States marked a tragic milestone, 1 million COVID deaths. While the country is…

More than Mental

Ramese Hearon formed the More than Mental Project as an answer to his own personal…

Growing up Other in a “White Hot” Culture

I recently watched the new Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie…

My Adoption Story

My name is Miguel Jones, and I am an adoptee from the province of Hà…

Singing in the Same Direction I’m Flying

In an over-compensatory attempt to unlearn a lifetime of people-pleasing, I have focused so much…

A Certain Aesthetic

Dr. Carolyn Chang’s office was a San Francisco sanctuary, a place of beauty and calm…