A note from our Founder & Editor in Chief
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The Beginner’s Guide to Listening
Featured Illustration: Ruby Jones In this pandemic, many of us have had only ourselves for company. We come to terms with many important things when this happens. Taking the time to really get to know a person, ourselves included, is something that we should all do with interest and sincerity. There is even more to Read more
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The Terrifying Reality of Womanhood
Featured Illustration: Simply Sophie Designs Trigger warning: mentions of gendered violence, gun violence, transphobia, and sexual assault. A TikTok video of user @jatsiveh detailing the contents of her ‘If I Go Missing Folder’, recently went viral on Twitter, collecting over 2 million views and 200,000 likes and retweets. Her folder contains the following: social media Read more
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Who Are You?
Featured Illustrations: Bahar Bayraktaroğlu When I asked people this question, most of them said it was difficult to answer. It was only when I answered the question myself that I realized what they were saying was true: not only because this question was personal, but also because most of us really don’t know. And even Read more
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How Skin Color Affects Our Whole Lives
Featured Illustration: Param Sahib When we meet someone for the first time, even before we smile, even before we shake hands, even before we can comprehend the color of their hair, WHAT’S THE FIRST THING WE NOTICE? The color of their skin. And based on this assessment, we behave a certain way unconsciously. We see Read more
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The Fascination With All That is Morbid and Macabre
Featured Illustration: Marmite / Behance It could be the very reason you clicked — a glance, then come another, then that pulsating enthrallment — the tempo of the heartbeat, those drops of pitter-patter sweat, and those eyes, open wide and clear, to all that is morbid and macabre… There are some things in this world Read more
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Building a Post-COVID Community
Featured Illustration: Brian Stauffer Within a few days of Nelson Mandela’s birthday this year (18 July), Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving member of the Rivonia trial (the trial that led to the imprisonment of Mandela and his eight co-accused in 1963-64), died here in South Africa (21 July). Across the ocean, U.S. Representative John Lewis, Read more
