"I am just learning how to truly say Amen..."
Read MoreBe My Obscurity
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2016
Of Flesh and Spirit
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"A person so close to the veil would feel the energy tethering him between the earth and his being, and between his being and the divine. And why wouldn’t that energy temporarily obliterate his pain and crack him open like a sorcerer’s stone through the most sublime release the human body can experience?"
Read MoreDiscovering Existence: A Cross-Textual Essay
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"Reading We the Animals by Justin Torres—a novel about a young Puerto Rican growing up in upstate New York, raised by an unstable white mother and heavily influenced by his not so present Puerto Rican father—I heard my story for the first time."
Read MoreHow To Hear Me
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"As a survivor of abuse, I find that the social reactions to the details of the abuse I have suffered serve only to prolong that sense of isolation."
Read MoreThoughts from our 2016 Essay Series Curators
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Liz Blood and P. E. Garcia talk about "Outsiders".
Read MoreThe Impossible Outside (or, A Zumbi’s Autopsy)
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The question of “Where is it safe to be Black & alive?” haunts the diaspora.
Read MoreNaming and Its Discontents
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"I started to feel like a cultural appropriator. I started to feel like I was appropriating myself."
Read MoreMothertonguetied: The Fantasy of Belonging
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I am a non-binary person and a Russian American. On the surface, I am an American woman. There’s a difference, I want to say. The difference means something.
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