Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.
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My Brown Dad Voted for Trump
Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.
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Shithole Country Clubs
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.
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You’re Just Too Good to Be True
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
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
You’re Just Too Good to Be True
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
A Woman, Tree or Not
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
Terese Marie Mailhot questions the value of Native coming of age ceremonies she missed out on.
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Recovering My Fifth Sense
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.
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Explaining My Multiracial Identity (So Others Don’t Do It For Me)
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.