Kylie Anon.

The Scarlet Letter Growing up in one of the most conservative towns California has to offer has been the greatest blessing to a white, middle-class, young woman like myself. I had everything I ever wanted when I was sixteen. I had a great family, great friends, and,...

Anonymous Slug

Untitled I’m riding BART by myself, I don’t remember where I was going but I had my bike and I was holding onto it with my feet so it wouldn’t roll away. I’m looking out the window, I love watching the scenery, watching the buildings as we go...

Anonymous Slug

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 several months when I was a child, seeing the effects that the Apartheid there had caused....

Anonymous Slug

I have been in twenty-three bomb shelters. As a teenager who grew up in San Diego, most people I know do not get to say such a statement, as most of us grew up going to school, and spending our weekends at the beach. I grew up in the Jewish religion. Going to temple...

Sydney Quynn

I was thirteen years old when a group of my friends were at my apartment and one of them, Zoe, said that we should listen to some “top 40.” While this is hardly a surprising suggestion from an eighth grader, I found myself beyond confused as I had never...