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Posted inNonfiction

(Who Gets to) Just Up and Move

by Nicole Walker January 3, 2020December 30, 2022

Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

My Brown Dad Voted for Trump

by Anjoli Roy November 20, 2019January 13, 2023

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Shithole Country Clubs

by Sari Botton September 10, 2019October 19, 2022

Nina Sharma wrestles with her father’s support of Donald Trump, his membership at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster near her family’s home in New Jersey, and his suggestion that she hold her Afro-Indian wedding there.

Posted inEditor's Pick

You’re Just Too Good to Be True

by Sari Botton February 14, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Kavita Das writes about her childhood infatuation, young adult disillusionment, and later-in-life acceptance of Englebert Humperdink.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

You’re Just Too Good to Be True

by Kavita Das February 14, 2019October 19, 2022

My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

You’re Just Too Good to Be True

by Kavita Das February 14, 2019October 19, 2022

My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

A Woman, Tree or Not

by Terese Marie Mailhot October 11, 2018October 19, 2022

Terese Marie Mailhot questions the value of Native coming of age ceremonies she missed out on.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

A Woman, Tree or Not

by Terese Marie Mailhot October 11, 2018October 19, 2022

Terese Marie Mailhot questions the value of Native coming of age ceremonies she missed out on.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Recovering My Fifth Sense

by Sari Botton January 29, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Explaining My Multiracial Identity (So Others Don’t Do It For Me)

by Sari Botton January 4, 2017October 19, 2022

Jaya Saxena’s personal essay on the complications of owning her three racial identities–white, Indian and multi-racial–and dealing with the many ways people see her, and feel entitled to define her.

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