Featured Image: Natalia Senanayake It’s been approximately four months and two days since I packed my bags and left my small suburban town for a new life in Barcelona, Spain. After all the chaos I experienced finding a place to live, opening a Spanish bank account, and adjusting to the pace of life here — […]
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Featured Illustration: Rocío Montoya Mirrors bleed a blinding white, light fractured over fractured features. Wrapped across my body, I see white ribbon dyed into splotchy carmine, crisscrossing into makeshift thigh highs and babydoll lingerie. The slope of a neck and the fat of baby cheeks— curves are a tantalizing blessing, the Lord’s gift for lecherous […]
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Inside the rusted locket Lies the old burnt image From a time I can no longer see Of someone long lost But the more and more I look Over the eyes that still have their shine And trace the details of their face The more I get confused Were all of the late-night calls And […]
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Featured Illustration: Abbey Lossing I’ve always loved celebrating the New Year. On December 31st, we’d feast as we waited for the clock to strike midnight, and I’d look up to the sky to admire the fireworks, despite harboring deep resentment for loud noises. In pre-pandemic times, my village hosted dinner parties, which were the only […]
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You know those kids in your class. The ones who take the hardest courses, do a million extracurriculars, always seem to be studying or working, usually aren’t free to hang out, and you once saw them tearing up over a B on their last assignment? I want to talk about them. To call myself one […]
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Featured Illustration: Nusha Ashjaee for NBC News The idea of the “typical” family has changed over the past decade, yet insight into immigrant families has only begun to enter the spotlight. Growing up, it was these insights that bonded me to many of my first-generation American friends as we laughed and complained about the shared […]
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Featured Illustration: Maxine Vee Growing up, I was an avid reader who spent most summers sprawled out on the carpet, legs crossed, rolling sideways to avoid the path of my mother’s vacuuming rather than choosing to momentarily take my eyes off the page. Most of the books I was reading at the time were from […]
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Featured Illustration: ‘Lights On’ by Ranganath Krishnamani With the fall blues now fully upon us, students have returned to the back-to-school groove. Yes, unlike previous years, I feel oddly stuck to the preceding one. A year, a milestone even, that disappeared without realization. Leaving high school without graduation, without yearbook signings, and without senior trips […]
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If you are a Pinterest user, you’re probably aware of how addicting it is to create new boards. A new obsession calls for a new board, so does a desire, an aesthetic and sometimes just the want to save something. For those unfamiliar with Pinterest, if I had to describe the application in a sentence, […]
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