Section

CULTURE

231 pieces

All FILM & TV LITERATURE MUSIC SPORTS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
A Daughter’s Take on Fatherhood
My father, vivacious— a mouth full of leaves and amrut, splurting and gushing between the crooks in his teeth, a call to…
M.A. RIAZ
CULTURE
On Identity-Coding in Children’s Animation
Featured Illustration: Drew Buchanan Coding, in television and film, is a technique that implies a fictional non-human character has a particularly human…
JANIENE FARQUHARSON
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
An Indian Girl
Featured Illustration: Upasana Agarwal I used to feel Uncomfortable In my own skin   My dark brown hue And even my kin…
SANJANA KARTHIK
CULTURE
The Duality of Visiting Your Motherland
Featured Image: Amanda Etemad The first time I went to Iran I was only 16, still in high school, traveling with a…
AMANDA ETEMAD
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
A Coming (of) Age
Featured Illustration: Raúl Gil At the beginning of the year, I read Fatima Farheen Mirza’s essay, Boxing. Mirza had taken an instant and…
KULSUMK
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Don’t Yuck My Yum
Featured Illustration: Jam Draws If you are on TikTok or Instagram, I’m sure you’ve come across at least a dozen mouth-watering cooking…
MILCAHF
CULTURE, LIFE
My parents didn’t have a voice, but they helped me find mine.
Featured Illustration: Maxine Vee Growing up, I was an avid reader who spent most summers sprawled out on the carpet, legs crossed,…
DEDEEPYA G
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Beautiful Inside and Out: A Conversation with Entrepreneur MJ Thomas
Entrepreneur MJ Thomas is the proud owner and founder of Malaya Studios in Pacifica, California. They offer lash, ink, skin, and wax…
HALEY SENGSAVANH
CULTURE, POLITICS
The Death Penalty and Its Implications in Lynching
Featured Illustration: The Appeal In Sumter County, Florida, in 1902, a Black man by the name of Henry Wilson was condemned to…
KENNEDY KELIS
CULTURE
New Development: Commodifying Real-Life Murder is the True Crime 
Featured Illustration: Belle Wuthrich Anyone who’s been connected to the Internet for this past week knows that the disappearance of Gabrielle “Gabby”…
SHRUTHI VASUDEVAN
CULTURE, THE ARTS
Daughters of a Different Path
Daughters of a Different Path is a story about a young African American woman, Leanna, who seeks her mother’s acceptance. After her…
AHMAD GHANIM
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
How One Organization is Redefining Mental Health for South Asians
Featured Illustration: Anatolii Babii A lot of entrepreneurs are motivated to create the resources they needed when they were younger, and Poonam…
ALEENAH ANSARI

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