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Losing and Finding My Worth Through Modeling
A measuring tape sits among sample sized beauty products on a crowded shelf in my bathroom. “Can I use it?” my roommate, and older…
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Be Your Own Valentine
It is after Valentine’s Day, and all we hear in the hallways at work is, “how was your Valentine’s Day?” Questions about who we’re…
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Non-binary/Cis Passing: It’s Okay to Ask
The next drink was a grande mocha without whipped cream. Obie put the next cup in the queue after the cashier wrapped up the…
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A ‘toast’ to Murray’s Bagels
Few things at Murray’s Bagels were as emblematic as the 19-year maintenance of a strict no-toasting policy that ended this year, leaving behind orthodox…
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Where Kafka was once read, becomes Kafkaesque itself
Second-hand bookstores have always been an unlikely place of wonder for me. It was one day during high school by sheer chance, sheer marvelous…
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Graduation, the word, originally comes from the Latin noun, “gradus,” a step. But today’s convention comes from the early 15th-century English use in alchemy…
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