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Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race

by Devin Kelly January 6, 2022January 31, 2023

Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

There She Goes: How to ‘Feminize’ a Face

by Seyward Darby November 12, 2020October 19, 2022

How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Mustache, My Self

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 14, 2020October 19, 2022

A quarantine facial-hair experiment led Wesley Morris to consider his Blackness, maleness, and self.

Posted inNonfiction

Molly and the Unicorn

by Emily Flake April 20, 2020December 9, 2022

Emily Flake reflects on the shifting nature of magic and power in middle age.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Searching Sephora for an Antidote to Aging — and Grief

by Abby Mims January 14, 2020December 30, 2022

Five years after her mother’s death, while still grieving and suddenly middle-aged, Abby Mims turns to beauty products to cure what ails her.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Finding Solace in the Charged Particles of the Aurora Borealis

by Krista Stevens January 8, 2020October 19, 2022

“Cree First Nations believe ‘the northern lights are dancing spirits of loved ones who have passed on.’”

Posted inReading List

We All Die In the End, But Our Skin Looks Great: A Reading List

by Sara Benincasa October 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Are you happy and well-rested, or did you just find a great new snail collagen sheet mask?

Posted inEssays & Criticism

Better Late

by Summer Block August 23, 2019February 3, 2023

From straightening her teeth to finding her true love, Summer Block has reached the milestones in her life later than most.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

On Beauty and Disability

by Aaron Gilbreath August 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Examining the body, disability, and the damaging idea of objective beauty.

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