What makes a person? A personal essay
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It’s a question I ask myself whenever I’m doing something I enjoy — do I actually like this or has some twist of circumstance or sociality caused me to?
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An American in the palace
There’s irony in the fact that a dynasty that built itself off of the subjugation of bodies of color could, in the end, be possibly ended by two Black women.
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The freshman class of COVID
A freshman who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from campus referred to the self-sequester as a “witch hunt.”
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Faintly falling through the universe: A personal essay
In the minutes, hours, weeks and months following her death, I’ve struggled to articulate how deeply affected and freshly cut I am by her newfound absence.
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My Dadi’s Thanksgivings: A personal essay
Ever since my grandma was put on a ventilator this past August, I’ve been keeping a list of things on my phone to tell her once she comes home. Naive and hopeful, the list initially consisted of a few clipped bullets, hastily written whenever I thought of her.
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Why you should vote
So, this coming Tuesday, vote. Vote because our ability and opportunity to do so, like much of American history, is being challenged once again.
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‘Cat Person’: How a singular story illuminates collective modern womanhood
The first time I read Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person,” spellbindingly scrolling down my phone in the last row of a monotonous film lecture, I felt like somebody had captured my most intimate thoughts, thoughts I hadn’t even fully processed, and beautifully expressed them in one heartbreaking, disgusting, cringe-inducing short story.
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My prep school reckoning
Off the Beat
I’d been ignorant about so many of my classmates’ experiences. Where had I been while so many other incidents of racism and classism had gone on?
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Going abroad, looking within: A personal essay
I, like so many American students before me, came to Italy this past January expecting to be transformed on a semester abroad.
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My Dadi, a force of nature: A personal essay
Sometimes my friends debate over the first things they’re going to do once the pandemic is all over…
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