It was only after she realized that “it’s ok” meant, “it’s ok to decide not to on your own.” That line has been rolling around…
“Isn’t race only an issue for those who make it one?” a British woman at Tourism Concern’s International Volunteering Conference asked. “Americans are, after all,…
“Excuse me. Please put down your phones and other distractions. I have something important to say.” The collective exhale of exasperation filled the packed subway….
I sat on the edge of the bed. When he leaned over to kiss me goodbye I twisted my hands into the sheets to keep…
“We both wake up, get dressed, and say our morning prayers. The difference? I pick up a book and they pick up a machine gun.”…
There are three types of memory that interest me: personal memory, the memory held by an individual, institutional memory, the consciousness of a corporate entity,…
I always have dirt under my fingernails. Regardless of their length, or my recent activities, they are always filthy. I blame this on two decades…
This piece was also published on Elite Daily. What struck me most during my four and a half hours in the abortion clinic was the…
I turn 22 tomorrow. This time last year I was in the process of dropping out of college, obviously a bit of a big deal….
He jokes that he grew up so poor that a trip to McDonald’s meant one burger split five ways, that his parents moved to the…