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EMPOWERMENT

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All Features Making Waves
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Reflections on AAPI Heritage Month
Featured Image: PBS SoCal May is a pleasant time of year. It’s when we trade in our textbooks and pages of Statistics…
NABIHA MASOOD
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Taking Back the Spotlight: Modest Muslim Fashion
Featured Image: CULTURE Hijab Co. The perception of Muslim women in the mainstream has been, for the lack of a better term,…
NABIHA MASOOD
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Hairbrushed
Featured Artwork: Louisa Cannell When I was younger, my mother used to brush my hair in the early morning sunlight I can…
HANNAH WYMAN
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
Black and White
Featured Image: Aliko Sunawang In my little sister’s middle school bedroom, a list was taped on one of the pale walls between…
HANNAH WYMAN
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
Every Man Can Be Superman
Featured Artwork: Levi Hastings You sit in a full movie theater on a Friday night when the buzz of excited energy runs…
PAUL MARSH
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
SomeBody
Featured Artwork: Arina Tsumbaluk When you say “body”, I wish our minds didn’t drift right down To what our consciousness does  When…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Stereotype
Featured Artwork: Louisa Cannell Our color, age, and religion shall not define Dictate our image  Or way of life We are humans…
SANJANA KARTHIK
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
I Mean No Disrespect
Featured Image: Adrian McDonald “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them…
AVA EVANS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Baby — A Letter To My Younger Self
    __ Featured Image via Liv Bruce
IRENE SCHRADER
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Soft Hearts, Hard Anger
They were warned. They were warned of the ones whose smiles soothed the coldest hearts, whose laughter caused the darkest of rooms…
RA
EMPOWERMENT, THE ARTS
A Black Queen Amidst Gentrification
Gentrification (noun): The process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.  Have we ever…
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
Freedom: Thoughts on Growing Up as a Teenager
I thought that for my first contribution to the magazine, I should get a little personal to show who I am, or…
AVA EVANS

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