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CULTURE

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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
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
CULTURE
The Bubble of Expat Privilege
My German and Chinese parents have always found it important for me to be culturally aware and open-minded. As a result, I…
IRENE SCHRADER
CULTURE, THE ARTS
Truth and Reality: Dishonest Fiction
I’ve written short stories for as long as I can remember. If I re-read them now they go from being painfully hormonal,…
ALIZAH HASHMI
CULTURE, POLITICS
School Inequality: A Thin Mask on Racism
Featured Artwork: Yasmine Gateau On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States of America gave its decision on the…
SADIE ROSE C HONCHOCK
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
8 Life Lessons of Learning Spanish
Learning a second language has always been my biggest lifelong dream. I remember when I was a child, my Argentinian grandparents would…
GINA ATANASOFF
CULTURE
Reconciliation: Queer, Agnostic, and Indian
These thoughts have always been tumbling through my brain perilously. I have vague memories of those first moments, when some alien crevice…
BEENA LAD
CULTURE, POLITICS
Why You Need to Get Involved in Your Local Political Space
That night, there was a special electricity in the air. I felt the push of bony shoulders, similar to a crowded concert.…
GINA ATANASOFF
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Nine Crows and The Godavari
Monsoons seize the trees of palm Clouds stand not alone behind the red curtain sun I swim with the black widowed crows…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Kintsugi & T(h)ea
I find our tribal human mind will always fight against the heart, missing the soul of the matter at hand. Unless the…
HOKIS

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