As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
Essays & Criticism
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Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts
A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
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Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts
A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
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Peterson’s Complaint
There’s no use debating a feeling. It’s time to change how we engage with Jordan Peterson.
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Making Peace with the Site of a Suicide
One woman reconciles with her father’s death on her family’s property.
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Gone Gray
Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
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Gone Gray
Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
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Letters from Trenton
While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
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Letters from Trenton
While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
How to Be Single
Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.