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Untitled For the longest time, I never thought I was enough. My parents divorced when I was little and growing up, there has always been stigma around having divorced parents....

How Being Salvadoran Affected Me My story begins in a small town in El Salvador where my parents met and fell in love. After their courtship started my father was drafted into...

Mountains and Holes It' somewhere between the hours of midnight and two in the morning when everyone is either asleep or forgetting what time it is because of what they're doing....

This is my Land Too As a young Mexican- American woman I struggle to find my place. When I enter the marketa I am known as la guera because I am lighter than most Latinas. Around...

It's Not Only What We See on the Surface I have black hair, dark brown eyes, and brown skin. Looking at me, people might think they know my ethnicity right away. They usually...

Through my life, I have had the privilege of experiencing a wide variety of cultures around the world. After I was Born in Santa Barbara, California, I lived in South Africa for...

Untitled Why are you so happy all the time? I've been asked this question numerous times since I have started college, and at first I would just respond, "I don't know, I just...

Untitled "Do I matter?" I ask, looking out at my friends beautiful faces. Soft sand warms my feet. A vast blue ocean stretches away from the beach and over the horizon. Removed...