When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
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I Had a Late-Term Abortion. President Trump and Pro-Lifers Have No Right to Call Me a Murderer.
A reported personal essay in which Margot Finn writes about the late-term abortion she under went at 29 weeks after it was discovered her baby had a severe brain abnormality; the online support group she helps run for parents who have had abortions because of poor prenatal diagnoses or maternal health issues; and how members […]
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Magen David and Me
A personal essay in which, after facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.
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Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You?
Jen Doll considers the value of millennials owning whatever privilege and generational wealth they’ve benefitted from as a step toward acknowledging that the path to success isn’t a level playing field, and income inequality is a major obstacle for many.
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You’re Just Too Good to Be True
In this personal essay, Kavita Das writes about her childhood infatuation, young adult disillusionment, and later-in-life acceptance of Englebert Humperdink.
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O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Winter
The third installment of Elisa Albert’s seasonal quartet of essays about life in a small upstate, New York town.
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Every Day I Write the Book
In this personal essay, at 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
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A Second Passport
In this personal essay, instead of returning home after a trip to Israel like most Birthright tourists do, Pam Mandel goes on to Egypt, and beyond.
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How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools
Journalist and documentarian — and Stuyvesant High School alumna — Laurie Gwen Shapiro profiles Alice de Rivera, whose 1969 case challenging Stuyvesant to open its enrollment to girls led to so many other male-only secondary schools and colleges to abandon gender-based exclusion.
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Elegy in Times Square
A personal essay in which Lily Burana, a former teenage peep show girl, looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.