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Identity
by ANTARA KULKARNI (India)
August 2022
To this day, most of what we actually know about sex is from Netflix shows, or The Notebook.
by AVA REITMAIER STONE (Canada)
August 2022
Everything we know about ourselves is relayed by sources outside of us.
by PRIYA CHAWLA (UAE)
April 2022
"Who are they?" Roshni asked her aunt as she poured the chai into different cups
by ALENA LIN (Singapore)
April 2022
With plates of food in hand, you are forced to greet vaguely familiar faces.
by BRIELLE YOUNG (United States)
September 2021
The story my grandfather told continues to shape me today.
by CLAIRE SWADLING (United States)
September 2021
Dr. André studies the intersection of identity, race, identity—and opera.
by MUSKAAN ARSHAD (United States)
September 2021
It is our job to be allies and fight alongside Black Americans for equality.
by PRAVARTIKA WANKHEDE (India)
September 2021
Discrimination on the basis of class is illegal. Yet it exists and blooms in this environment of hate.
by CHLOE SOW (United States)
September 2021
We often forget how Black communities and Asian communities have stood up for each other.
by STELLA WESTON (New Zealand)
September 2021
"For many of us, this is not a new moment in time," says the young Māori activist.
by AMY NAM (Canada)
September 2021
As early as nine years old, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror, poking and prodding at the skin above my eyes to create double eyelids.
by TIFFANY LEONG (United States)
July 2021
I knew Chinatown best on Saturdays,
the November kind
by NEERAJA KUMAR (India)
July 2021
Why does the sky appear black from the airplane
even though its sweltering noon on the ground?
by CHRIS LIM (The Philippines)
July 2021
Jeepney Smoke seeps through the iron rail
to keep him bloodshot. He burrows in the neck
by EDWIGE GHEMBESALU (United States)
April 2021
They tell us to put our hands up. Then, they ask us why we moved. Sister, that is why they shoot. Because we move.
by AILEEN BAK (Australia)
April 2021
As a Haenyeo, a Korean sea-woman, her day was just beginning, even before the sun rose in the bitter oceanic cold to ready herself to dive for her day's catch.
by KOBY CHEN (Canada)
April 2021
When my mother and father had left for the west, they brought few things with them.
by ARI (United States)
April 2021
In the jungles of Aklan stands a statue of a man I've never met.
Stands a monument to a face I've never seen.
by NAZEEFA AHMED (Canada)
December 2020
Mathematics: prove me
with your trig identities
by VIVIAN ZHI (Canada)
December 2020
My words can be a sense of comfort, a feeling of being understood, a thought, an awakening.
by CARISSA CEASOR (United States)
December 2020
Shirk your sense of responsibility.
Leave your guilt at the door of progress.
by ANYA WILSON (Ireland)
December 2020
When I arrive home, there are men outside our cottage. But these are not my dada's friends.
by YASMINE BOLDEN (United States)
December 2020
You have never known those shores or those
people or those words that sound like a memory
by ELOISE DAVIS (United Kingdom)
December 2020
Throughout my many travels, to all sorts of exotic lands, never before have I seen a diet so extraordinary as that of the snamuh.
by ARIA MALLARE (United States)
August 2020
Don't you swat at a fly.
Don't you mindlessly shoot that harmless creature to the ground.
by LEE GAINES (United States)
August 2020
you have learned there is both good and bad about where you live.
you have learned the stubbornest people on the planet are Southern.
by ASHTON PERFECTO (United States)
April 2020
I am an American boy
with a Mexican twin.
by AURELLI LAZUARDI (Singapore)
April 2020
Negro Swan allows Devonte Hynes to address his struggles as a young black man in the UK.