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LIFE

124 pieces

All FOOD & TRAVEL LESSONS LEARNED LOVE & LOSS MONEY & CAREER
LIFE
Symmetry in a World Out of Kilter
Featured Illustration: Lena Shevchuk “When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are…
NADIA KAMIES
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Love Letter
Featured Image: Sam Stapleton حبيبي (Ya Habibi!) Oh, my Beloved! The stench of your sins Wafts into your nose Fraying the senses…
RA
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
The Importance of Volunteering
Featured Illustration: Sascha Morawetz Volunteering is the act of an individual or group freely giving their time and labor for community service.…
SANJANA KARTHIK
LIFE
Here’s to 2020
Featured Illustration: Mariah Parker As the last few hours of 2020 pass while loud music blasts in the background and all across…
USRAAT FAHMIDAH
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
Hey You, Get A Mentor!
Featured Illustration: Femme Palette When you want to travel somewhere new, you use a GPS. When you want to cook a new…
HALEEMA AHMED
LIFE
Making The Most of the Last Stretch
Featured Illustration: tubik.arts This year has been undeniably difficult. Difficult for those who lost their inspirations, said goodbye to loved ones, stayed…
HALEEMA AHMED
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
A Night Walk to the Capitol
Featured Image: Andy Feliciotti Today I write this story — this part of my life as a historian. I did not always…
AMIR M. W.
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Whittling Saplings
Featured Image: Jeremy Bishop All we have are our words. We must use them precisely as we whittle together from the bark…
HOKIS
LIFE, THE ARTS
sorry for party rocking
Featured Artwork: “Happy 2 Be Here” by K. O’Neill Being an artist and writer, I’m constantly thinking of how to incorporate wordplay…
K. O'NEILL
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
I Am More
Featured Illustration: Mayra Arvizo I was sad, And I will be sad,  But I am not today   I am more than…
SANJANA KARTHIK
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
Who Are You?
Featured Illustration: Caitlin B. This is a question we’ve had to answer at some point in our lives. For many of us,…
HEPHZIBAH OKOGIE
LIFE
Conscious Care for our Mental Health
Featured Illustration: Caitlin B. How are you doing? Most of us never think about our mental health until it hits us that…
TITILAYO AROWOLO

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