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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Sindh: Land of the Lost
How many mothers, how many children? How many girls, how many bodies? How many years of Barbarity Hunger Undue Thirst Tragedy Obliteration?…
ALIZAH HASHMI
POLITICS
My First Time Voting In 2020
I walked into the booth made up of foldable room dividers and glanced at the piece of paper in front of me.…
DYLAN O'CONNOR
UNCATEGORIZED
Bridging Gender Pay Inequity: USWNT Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Soccer Federation
The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, four-time World Cup champions and Olympic Gold Medal winners, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the…
MAGGIE MCCLURE
CULTURE
Fitting In vs. Standing Out: Being Black in Predominantly White Schools
Featured Artwork: Aishwarya Srivastava A few months ago, I had a problem. Not specifically my problem, of course, but I had heard…
NA'ILAH WILLIAMS
UNCATEGORIZED
Where Are The Muslim Women?
The heated debates around Muslim women and their hijabs have only gained traction after waves of Islamophobia and racism continuously fueling them.…
HIMAYA HAREED
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
how to be a conservative.
be a white woman give up my voice love my man and family harder and longer  than any other choice get on…
KRISTIN HUNT
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Wade’s Courage.
We say we don’t know what to say around them / they / us / he / his / she / her…
KRISTIN HUNT
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
We Speak
Like ghosts of lands once stolen from ashes dust the thresholds of new beginnings — the end of what was that which…
HOKIS
CULTURE
Domestic Violence: Hispanic Women Stuck in the Shadows
Featured Artwork: Egle Plytnikaite There was a Spanish song I heard only a handful of times growing up, playing in the car…
ANA ORTEGA
CULTURE
The Art of Praying
Gandhinagar, Hyderabad 2003 8:30am  I watched my aunt pour a golden glass of milk over the porcelain statue of goddess Lakshmi Devi.…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Baby — A Letter To My Younger Self
    __ Featured Image via Liv Bruce
IRENE SCHRADER
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Am I Broken?
I once was mistaken for beautiful I decided not to use my voice and the public was forced to read my face…
KRISTIN HUNT

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