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    Maintaining is the New Thriving

    Gloria Harrison - 1
    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.
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    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.
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    My Latinx Mental Healthcare Story

    Michelle Poveda - 1
    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...
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    The Summer of Pussy

    Pallavi Yetur - 0
    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.
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    The Beauty of Gxrl Dreams

    Cooper Gillespie - 2
    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...
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    The Tree of Life

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    I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.
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    The drive to Colorado took two days. It was April 15, 1987, and I had just come from Fort Rucker, Alabama, the Army’s Aviation...
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    THIS USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND

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    A viable offer has been made on my childhood home. I’m not falling out of my chair with shock, considering it’s been on the...
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    We Stand on the Backs of Generations of Women: Some Thoughts on My Grandmother

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    Musician/Artist Kelly Fleek on Living Your Truth, Successful Queer & Creative Partnerships, and Kicking Doors Down

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