People
What Is Left, What Is Held, What Is Grown As Roots
Always the most vulnerable will die. There will be others, too, but it begins there. And we see, in slow moving real time, whose life is valued, whose life is not.
It Comes in Threes: Superstition, Ritual, and Action in 2020
If you feel more spiritual or superstitious than usual, it’s because you are.
What Public Bathrooms Taught Me
The problem, of course, is that the public toilet involves doing the private in public.
An Enzyme and a Marathon Gave Me Hope After My Assault
I decided to try to find a more complete scientific narrative about trauma instead of accepting damage as a foregone conclusion.
A Painting of Eve as a Brown Woman Brought Me Back to My Faith
When I looked at her, I simultaneously saw divinity, and myself.
Afro-German Women are Still Upholding the Legacy of May Ayim
There have always been people suffering from anti-Blackness. And May Ayim highlights the continuity of the Black experience—not only her own, but those before her as well.
I Am Partially Deaf and I Write to Be Heard
Why can’t the abled world fit into our world?
In the Wilds of an Open Soil with Writer Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin’s poetic prose is so visual in the writing that many parts reminded me of a graphic novel.
Why I Stopped Celebrating My “Birthday”
I don’t know when I was born. I’ve stopped pretending that I do.
Moon Prism Power! Re-examining the Power of the Magical Asian Schoolgirl
When your youth is marked so clearly, by a crisp sailor collar and the deep pleats of your skirt, everyone feels like they deserve a piece of it, of you.