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“It is the people who have power”
I must be ready to be the best person I can be to serve my country.
Shades of Yellow Heighten the Horror of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’
In Tobe Hooper’s famous horror film, the color yellow is a visual catalyst for the evil that is to come.
My Mom’s Pandemic Piano Taught Me You Can Always “Find Yourself”
It was the first time I’d ever noticed growth or newness this way: reclaiming, or returning, rather than overhauling and chasing.
Feed Yourself Like Someone You Love: A Recipe for Summer Vegetable Tuna Curry
The trick to a good nostalgic curry rice is to finish it with honey. Just a drizzle at first.
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The Handbook for the Recently Deceased
In the film ‘Beetlejuice’, death is exaggeration. To die is to become a different size, to be viewed as grotesque by an outside observer.
You Are as Strong as Your Teeth
Strength is as transmissible as brown eyes, an ability to curl the tongue, a gap in the teeth.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship and the Harm of “For Your Own Good”
What’s terrifying about Spears’s situation, for a certain kind of disabled person, is that we are a razor’s edge away from joining her.
Taking History Personally: Tea, Selfhood, and the Story of Empire
Tea plants—and the drinks we make from them—carry so many meanings.
How Vlogging Is Empowering a New Generation of Stutterers
They ground me, authorizing me to keep talking like I do.
Soft Robots Taught Me How to Be Strong
After accepting that softness could be innovative, and that strength can be supple, I sought guidance from new developments in the world of soft robots.
