Essays
Child Custody in the Time of Pandemia
I am still raw from the March 13th sting when we, terrified by a novel virus, canceled classes at the high school where I teach -- where my youngest attends -- and floored it home without a backward glance, locked ourselves up tightly, and refused to open for friend and stranger both. I forced smiles for all the kids in my care, "What an adventure!" it said. We got this. I got this.
Essays
Maintaining is the New Thriving
Don’t misunderstand me: Sierra’s death is in here, waiting, like lava bubbling deep inside a sleeping volcano. It will have its day, as such losses do, whether I want it or not.
Essays
On predictions of death
NP Saunders - 1
I am like him. When I am angry, my eyes flash contemptuously and I say nothing. I feel wrath and hatefulness and plan cruelty. It passes. I’m glad that is mostly all.
Essays
My Latinx Mental Healthcare Story
My mom is an immigrant from Quito, Ecuador. In Latinx culture, it’s common to treat a visit to the doctor like a visit to the mechanic. Something is wrong, you pay a professional to fix it...
Culture
The Summer of Pussy
It makes sense that those at the helm of “WAP” and P-Valley are Black and Brown women, because it is the other who is forced continually to rise up and assert a voice—otherwise there would be no space made for her.
Culture
Devil: Tim Burton Adaptations, Advocate: Me
While none of Burton’s work, or anyone’s for that matter, is beyond criticism, the responses to his films of late have felt personally motivated, driven by a bias about his washed-up-ness, his transition from artist characterized by originality to director doing Disney’s bidding.
Features
The Affair and the Narcissistic Philanderer
By Pallavi Yetur How often is it that you meet someone you truly detest? Someone who despite their...
Essays
The Beauty of Gxrl Dreams
Frozen We lived at the edge of Lake Michigan for a brief time when I was around four years old. It got so cold that...