A note from our Founder & Editor in Chief
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Miles of Experiences
Featured Painting: ‘Landscape of Many Colors’ by Uzma Rizvi Observations and reflections while driving through the countryside, the back roads, and the small towns of America. . . . Travel by road is always liberating and exciting. You are driving towards the horizon, winding through valleys, farms, and towns you never knew about. We, as Read more
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Diaspora
Featured Illustration: Upasana Agarwal Toeing the threshold between purgatory and reality. My spirit runs insurgent in the forest of looming souls. Torn from these nascent roots, Mary’s suckling lamb is distraught. Convention dictates the adoption of identity markers. Only this label is hopeless to the deciphering lens. Like sloping hieroglyphics, it confounds the viewer and Read more
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Reflections On My Way Home
Featured Image: Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures, 1960s to Now I ride the metro and it rides me. I clutch the sign and it clutches me. I wonder if it feels the words that emotions cannot describe? I feel them too. Perhaps that is why we clutch each other. I cannot decide which Read more
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On The Road To Burnout
Featured Illustration: Creative Bloq There is a statement I have become all too familiar with: “There are two types of people in quarantine: one person who has accomplished so much, and another person who regrets not being the former.” When the chaos commenced in March, my early days were spent scrolling on social media comparing Read more
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On the Music Industry: Interview with Mia Van Allen, Founder of Color of Music Collective
Featured Illustration: Abbie Winters Color of community, Color of pride, Color of diversity, Color of empowerment. Color of Music Collective. Tell your story. George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are more than ghosts and remnants of a social media trend and have proven to be an important catalyst in the Black Lives Matter Movement. This has Read more
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Global Girlhood: Where Women Tell Women’s Stories
Featured Illustration: Camila Rosa “Come on, not again,” is what I am told at times when I try to start a conversation about gender. I don’t think it would be fair to say that gender as a subject has not been vehemently researched or spoken about. However, gender discrimination continues to be one of the Read more
