Somya Bhatia

My Hair is a Curse As I’m walking down the streets of New Delhi, India, I can feel the stares from street vendors covered in oil and sweat from the hot and humid summer air. I can feel the stares from women draped in cheap, dull colored saris. I can feel the...

Kaylin Johnson

Untitled Being black and white has its perks. You don’t get a sunburn every easily and tanning is a breeze. But being biracial has a lot of downsides, especially at a young age. One of the things that I hated the most about being biracial was that people never...

Anon. Ku

Untitled Many of us become comfortable with something when we’ve experienced it multiple times. It gets easier once know what to expect. But when we’re given the opportunity to do something different or something new, do we take it? My journey at Cupertino...

Carla Estrada

My Story As soon as I was given this prompt I knew what I wanted to write about, what I needed to write about. I knew it would be anything but easy. My face is still getting rid of the ecchymosis that outlines my right cheek bone and my head has just begun to itch...