Coming from Nowhere
“The first time someone called me a spic was during recess or after school in the playground or in the park across the street from my house.”
Face Mask Scarcity Leaves California Farmworkers Unprotected
The demand for face masks could have profound effects on California agriculture, including the application of different fungicides and an increase in Valley Fever. Many farm workers can’t afford to let risks effect their livelihood, but fear of exposure is reducing the number of workers in certain sectors. Without laborers, $4 billion dollars worth of crops are at risk in Monterey County alone.
W. H. Auden Was a Messy Roommate
An organized life is not always a productive life.
“Anything Good I Could Say About This Would Be a Lie”
“She’s dead, and I’m quarantined. That’s how the story ends. I keep going back over it in loops, trying to find a way to sweeten it, but nothing changes the facts. I wasn’t there with her at the end. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I don’t even know where her body is right now, or if the only thing that’s left is her ashes.”
Eating for Two
“My husband and I shared a love of food. Then he cheated on me when I was seven months pregnant.”
Where Water Used to Be
A look at another crisis the world is facing: water scarcity. Rosa Lyster examines the water-stressed cities of Cape Town and Mexico City — cities grappling with issues related to climate change, infrastructure, and inequality.
Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained For
In this braided essay, Jazmine Hughes contemplates her resistance to both learning to swim and coming out, and the empowerment each experience offers her when she finally surrenders to them.
Since I Became Symptomatic
A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19. She wrote this meditation on single parenthood, loneliness, longing, and frustration while sheltering in place — and sweating out the virus — with her 2-year-old daughter.
The Unlisted
How people without an address are stripped of their basic rights—an excerpt from The Address Book.
How the Pandemic Will End
“The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.”
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