A note from our Founder & Editor in Chief
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Conscious Care for our Mental Health
Featured Illustration: Caitlin B. How are you doing? Most of us never think about our mental health until it hits us that we are sinking deeper into the bottomless pit of our emotions. Before the advent of social media and the mental health movement, we assumed the constriction of our hearts, sweat in our palms, Read more
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Autumn
Featured Illustration: Lara Paulussen Splatter of maroon across the canvas Neighboring pine trees Tickling lush green bushes Light playfully resiles from the trees Their silhouettes Conceived In light autumn breeze The cold is comforting Matching our despondence Instead of bright lights Stretching lips Into smiles That take precedence The hush of the Read more
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Daniela Andrade: Reclaiming Identity Through Music
“Blue and white colors burn / Right through my eyes” are the lyrics of Canadian Hondureña Daniela Andrade’s single “Gallo Pinto” from her EP Tamale that poetically, and with pride, invoke the colors of the flag of her motherland and roots that tie her to her Latin American identity. Andrade first began her musical career Read more
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New York Mornings and Sunsets in the Suburbs
Featured Image: Michal Pechardo Four months ago, I was ready to leave home and never look back. It had already been three months in lockdown, counting down the days from an idyllic suburb tucked away in the East Bay. This town is beautiful in the way that only a city so meticulously planned, tree by Read more
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Best Intentions
Featured Image: Waseem Iqbal This short story was long-listed for the 2019 Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Pakistani Women. . . . The cancer had metastasized. It wasn’t that I hadn’t seen this coming. Nothing Nano did was purposeless. This time she was almost too overt. She was coming over to stay — maybe Read more
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We Are Quick to Go Back to School When School is a Failing System
Featured Image: Ariel Davis It is no secret that U.S. schoolchildren take nothing away from school that they could use in the real world. Home economics credits are not even a mandatory requirement to graduate the California high school curriculum. Instead of arguing about opening schools amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Education should Read more
