How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
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The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families
“But these social workers, in some cases inadvertently, were creating something radical: state-supported queer families in an era of intense discrimination.”
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“Addiction is a thief of your goodbyes”
“I got angry, my mother cried, the addicts got high. That became a holiday theme for years to come.”
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Dear Mom & Dad: We Need to Talk about QAnon
Children Of QAnon believers are desperately trying to deradicalize their parents.
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Loving Molly, and Mourning Her: A Husband’s Extraordinary Essay
Blake Butler writes movingly about his late wife, poet Molly Brodak.
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The Secrets of a Hidden Diary
A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.
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‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity
“Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”
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Motherhood, Metamorphosis
“I do not wish to have not been a parent. But I think it is normal to imagine new existences when the world is crumbling.”
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Chasing My Father’s Ghost Through the Swiss Alps
James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
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Only One of Their Children Survived Sandy Hook. Now School Posed a New Threat: The Virus.
“After losing their 6-year-old daughter in a mass shooting, can Isaiah Marquez-Greene’s parents bear to let him return to high school during a pandemic?”