The Pressure to Describe My “Background”
As a Black child in a brown family, I had to learn how to define my identity in a new way
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What I’ve Learned from What My Mother Has Forgotten
My mother’s dementia made me think about my own future in a new way
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Parenting through an Apocalypse
What stories can we tell our children to help them face the world they will inherit?
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How to Travel with a Goldfish
The weirdest things I’ve packed in my carry-on luggage
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How Euchre Healed My Family
We have played through illness, arguments, divorces, and death
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How to Make the Perfect Popcorn
If you microwave your popcorn, never speak to me again
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Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game
If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”
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Me, My Dad, and His Old Clothes
After my parents divorced, I began to wear my dad’s cast-off suits and loafers everywhere
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Why Every Donkey Deserves a Home
My donkey doesn’t like me. But I’m glad we have him anyway
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