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LIFE

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LIFE
A Year of Isolation Makes Way For Anxious Girl Summer
Featured Image: Podessto/Shutterstock Nobody’s happier than I am that this summer will mark our gradual return to pre-pandemic life. I ought to…
SHRUTHI VASUDEVAN
CULTURE, LIFE
What We Lost in the Fire
Cape Town burned for three days this April in one of the worst fires that I can remember. I woke to the…
NADIA KAMIES
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
The End is The Beginning
Featured Image: Ray Hennessy Let our hearts unlock And our skin touch time Grant life’s movements Life’s changes  To uphold on our…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Castles in the Sky
Featured Image: Billy Huynh I always wondered what it would be like, playing house with the person you love. Our imagination works…
EMILY MAIS
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
To be loved.
Featured Image: Guilherme Stecanella I’ve learned I don’t want to be loved like the world is ending Because in that moment You’d…
SANAA MIRZ
LIFE
A Pandemic Year in Reflection
Featured Illustration: Kelly Malka A year into the pandemic — words we never thought we would say, hear, or live through. It’s…
NIVITA SRIRAM
LIFE
One Year of a Pandemic – Will 2021 Bring Normalcy?
Featured Illustration: Kelly Marcelle Malka It’s nearing a year since quarantine has started going into effect in several states across the country.…
HAFEEZAT BISHI
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Forgiveness
Featured Image: Cinyee Chiu I forgive for myself And I forgive myself   I forgive the world And perhaps it can too…
SANJANA KARTHIK
CULTURE, LIFE
Learning and Unlearning with Debby Nguyen: The Power of Culture & Medicine
Featured Image: New Degree Press Debby Nguyen is the author of her debut nonfiction book: Pills, Teas, and Songs, a New York…
PRATHIGNA YERAKALA
CULTURE, LIFE
We Need to Memorialise the Stories of our South Asian Female Elders Before It’s Too Late
Featured Illustration: Joey Guidone We often forget the legacies of those before us, legacies that lift us up and constantly inspire us.…
KHADIJAH HASAN
LIFE
Keep Voices Down, This is a Quiet Zone
Featured Image: Valentin Antonini I was a loud kid. Not shouting on the playground, tear-stricken tantrum in the grocery store loud, but…
SHRUTHI VASUDEVAN
LIFE
Are You Taking Revenge by Procrastinating Your Bedtime?
Featured Illustration: Shoko Ishida Have you ever heard of revenge bedtime procrastination? You might have or not, but it is a phenomenon…
FAUZIYA BANO

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