Voices of Rebirth: A Reading List on Being Indigenous in America By Autumn Fourkiller Feature Our lives are so much more than you could possibly imagine.
Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York By Benje Williams Feature A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.
Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
Listen to the Sound of My Voice By Seyward Darby Highlight How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
‘My Tongue Swallowing the Taste of Home Soil’: On Filipino Food, Family, and Identity By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”
There She Goes: How to ‘Feminize’ a Face By Seyward Darby Highlight How a trans woman found the surgery that could restore her sense of self.
I Never Wanted my Hemangioma to Define Me By Emily Weitz Feature Emily Weitz looks back at a childhood filled with surgeries, harsh stares, and proving she was more than just the skin on her face.
Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere By Robert Lopez Feature Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors By Katy Kelleher Feature Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
The View From 5-Foot-3 (and a Half) By Soraya Roberts Feature Maybe we can’t transcend height, but can we transcend the internalized misogyny that causes us to limit ourselves and judge other women?
Oklahoma: A Reading List By Jacqueline Alnes Reading List “I am leaving this state very soon, and it’s filled me with the kind of ache for understanding that so often accompanies a goodbye, a sense that I can never know quite enough.”
I’m Not Queer to Make Friends By Logan Scherer Feature By Trying on the Role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer Confronts His Gay Shame
Just a Spoonful of Siouxsie By Alison Fields Feature Surviving seventh grade with a practically perfect punk nanny.
‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
Finding Grace Between Love and Loss By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One single mother’s journey to construct a sense of self that’s true to herself, not to other people.
Character Work By Alison Fields Feature Alison Fields remembers the perils of junior high: fitting in, standing out, and trying out.
Nothing But Time and Tides and Salt and Mud and Warren Ellis By Michelle Weber Highlight Once described by 8th century Mercian king Offa as “a terrible place,” it’s an odd, out-of-the-way part of the world.
The Changeling By Alexander Chee Feature Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
Parsing Her Identity With A Long-Lost Folder, Plus the Internet By Sari Botton Highlight A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.
Wherever You Go, There You Are. Charles Manson is There, Too. By Michelle Weber Highlight Do we carry pieces of our younger selves with us, even as we grow and change?
On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses By Ben Huberman Highlight On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.
Innocence Abroad By Pam Mandel Commentary “I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
The Other National Pastime: Unusual Baby Names By Ben Huberman Highlight “Brayden” and “Nevaeh” have got nothing on their 17th-century predecessors, “Waitstill” and “Supply.”
A Life Measured in Swipe-Rights By Michelle Weber Highlight Andrew Kay found himself on the dating scene and the academic job market at the time time, living life as one long interview.
Poets Talk to Poets about the Border Wall By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In this roundtable, poets from around this world discuss the role borders play in their lives.
Tell Me What Donut You Prefer, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are By Michelle Weber Highlight Have you ever thought really hard about donuts? Like, 7,000 words hard? Keaton Lamle did.
Kimberly, No Longer With the Good Hair By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.
Choosing Mother India By Pam Mandel Highlight “People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”
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