“If I had to answer, ‘What am I?’, however, I would say I am American. I am this melting pot of values and cultures, and I now know that I do not have to choose between these things to know who I am.”
Rho on ‘Where are you from?’ + Asian + American Culture
“Does it change the conversation if you know what Asian I am? It seems like a filler question that other people ask, but cannot relate to the answer. And I cannot flip the question onto them.”
Charles Brown on Protest Organizing + BLM + Police Reform
“If you are human, you cannot watch someone murdered before your eyes and not feel some sort of compassion or empathy.”
Ricky Evans on Racism + Love + Beauty in Education
“I think that the beautiful part about learning is that once you equip yourself with the truth, the truth makes you move differently and it challenges you to be different.”
Maria Sole Campinoti + the Italian Government during COVID-19
“The Prime Minister talks about bridging the gender gap, but for normal women, he has done nothing.”
Black Lives Matter Protests
“I came out of the closet as a gay man when I was 16, but I came out of the closet as a black man when I was born,”
Time Spent in Quarantine
Time in quarantine feels nonsensical. How can we infuse meaning back into our days– and reclaim our 2020?
Kyu Min Huh on South Korea + COVID-19
I am in South Korea now. I actually should be in New Orleans, but delayed my flight to April 20th. I was going to be a part-time volunteer intern before getting a job, but got an email two days ago that New Orleans became another hotspot for covid-19. I really haven’t expected New Orleans to…
Pattern Breaking + Self Trust + Anxiety
As a person who could always rely on me, I suddenly saw my unreliability for what it was. I had become unstable, and the reality of it slapped me hard across the face.
Susana Palacios Pizarro on Chile’s Revolution— Mapuche Style
“We have been told to be reasonable and rational, and it didn’t work. Now, it is Mapuche way.”