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rewinding [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | September 25At the sand-colored strip mall near my elementary school, wedged between the dry cleaners and ice cream parlor, was my sister and I’s childhood playground. On long summer days or rainy afternoons, my mother would park beneath the dusty sycamores and walk us across the asphalt to the glass storefront. ...
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blood, not semen [feature]
By Ivy Rockmore | September 18I was only 17 when I ejaculated into the cup that my future children would be frozen in. I was about to become a mother, whether I wanted to or not.
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mama, it's me [feature]
By Elena Jiang | April 24On our second visit, Xiao Li tells us of a breakthrough: If you knot the top corners of the blanket around the first metal bar on each side of the bed, lao lao won’t get up at night. The contraption is simple: she tries to sit up, the blanket holds her down. With such little room between the mattress ...
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out of bloom [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | April 10“They’re just trees; no more pictures!” whines a boy, maybe six years old, to his parents. He is much more invested in the line of ice cream trucks a few meters away than posing with the sakura.
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my aerophobia and i [feature]
By Joyce Gao | April 3The cabin was dark. I sat amidst sleeping strangers and a baby crying nonstop. Maybe it was because everything from my hair to the provided blankets smelled like stale coffee that I sat wide awake, staring at the in-flight travel monitor—the only source of light in my vicinity. On the screen, a small ...
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on "on photography" [feature]
By Alissa Simon | March 20I forget exactly when I first became uneasy with my photograph.
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planted [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | March 13“if someday you can’t find me you might
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knowing love [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | March 6It is May of 1981. Tempo Magazine, one of Indonesia’s largest weekly newspapers, has just published an article about a wedding. “Their affections for one another are a little excessive, even in front of all their guests,” the author writes, seemingly amused. “Bonnie is pinching their ‘husband’s’ ...
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family ties [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | February 28As my mom reads off every name, my sister and I try our hardest to commit them to memory. We are six and eight years old, excitedly staring at the family tree in front of us. It is astonishing and extensive, with some very familiar names and others that I have only heard of as characters from my parents’ ...
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nollywood [feature]
By Ayoola Fadahunsi | February 21“I am a product of Nollywood and my loyalty remains unshaken.” -Genevieve Nnaji
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treasure under our feet [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | February 7“I walk, all day, across the heaven-verging field.” - Mary Oliver, “Upstream”
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these platonic loves [feature]
By Elena Jiang | December 6This summer, I started journaling more consistently, generating list after list to wrangle my otherwise incoherent jumble of thoughts—favorite songs of the month, all-nighters ranked from most-bad to sorta-fun, top five core memories, most transformative friendships. I lingered on the last one longer ...
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deserted [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | November 29On my ninth birthday, my Grandpa Bill gifted me a copy of The Little Prince. I remember the cover with the blonde boy who stood amongst the stars, but I didn’t read the story until recently, when Bill sent a letter that reminded me of the image.
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our first lives [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | November 16tw: body image, disordered eating/body image, some mention of gender dysphoria
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breaking bread [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | November 8Upon returning home from a family reunion trip two summers ago, I was welcomed back by the presence of two very conspicuous solid lines on the white plastic Covid-19 test in my hand. I had not (to my knowledge) had Covid since the pandemic had started. It was bound to happen at some point, I thought ...
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send my love [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | November 1Nearly all seventeen species of penguins are intensely colonial, gathering in “great teeming masses” to court one another. To win a female’s affection, males swing their heads side to side or raise their flippers or throw their beaks to the sky to carol their best trills and squawks. Some gentoo ...
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liebestraum and loss [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | October 25O lieb, solang du lieben kannst!
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speaking in tongues [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | October 18After hundreds of years of disruption, displacement, and colonial violence in Indonesia, I’m learning Dutch. Rudimentary, garbled Dutch, but Dutch nonetheless.
