People
A Disaster Not to Be Found: On Survival (and Ultrasounds)
It had all started about five or six years earlier, around the first time I fell in love. I didn’t know when it would end.
A Strange Language: How a Chronic Heart Condition Has (and Hasn’t) Changed My Life
Sometimes I’m convinced no other person will ever know my fragile heart the way I do.
Bruce Springsteen: The Ultimate Dad
“The dads are here for Bruce; the dads hold these truths about Bruce to be self-evident.”
15 Minutes with M. Jenea Sanchez: Weaving Community Through Art
“Yes, the border divides . . . but the culture of this place is of one, not two.”
Santiago de Cuba: On Fidel Castro’s Farewell
“‘I am Fidel’—that was the official watchword for all Cubans mourning the Comandante.”
What If: On Black Lives and Mental Health
“What if Granny had grabbed a weapon to protect herself from the invisible people?”
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Explaining My Multiracial Identity (So Others Don’t Do It For Me)
Every time someone guesses wrong, I am the one to apologize.
Women in the Fracklands: On Water, Land, Bodies, and Standing Rock
“Who is responsible for and to this woman, her safety, her body, her memory?”
Thanatophobia: Everything to Fear but Fear Itself
“I went on the internet, searched ‘fear of death,’ and a name appeared.”