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What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity

by benhuberman October 17, 2017October 19, 2022

On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.

Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 23, 2017October 19, 2022

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.

Editor's Pick

The Great Divide: Growing up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

“Through the years, I stopped feeling pressured to either be less Japanese or more Japanese, and decided just to be. It became easier when I found someone who helped me remain intact.” Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in […]

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On Being Smaller

by michelleweber August 22, 2017October 19, 2022

Colin Gillis finds both joy and an unexpected sadness after losing one-third of his body weight.

Essays & Criticism

Innocence Abroad

by Pam Mandel August 11, 2017October 19, 2022

“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.”

Nonfiction, Quotes

The Other National Pastime: Unusual Baby Names

by benhuberman August 4, 2017October 19, 2022

“Brayden” and “Nevaeh” have got nothing on their 17th-century predecessors, “Waitstill” and “Supply.”

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Notes from a Baby-Names Obsessive

by benhuberman August 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Names channel our identity — or at least our parents’ idea of our future identity — in ways both big (class, ethnicity) and small (subcultural affiliations, self-awareness). When the mother’s American and the father’s French, things get complicated, fast.