Asian-American, Female, Story
Slugging Through Life It began before I could distinguish that the words I spoke to my parents did not share the same language my classmates spoke to their own with. That did not stop them from sitting with me during tests to look at my answers and it definitely would...
Female, Latinx/Chicanx, Story
Self-love as an act of defiance My journey towards self-love was not an easy one. I’d grown up in a society that told me that I should hate myself and everything that made up who I was. I started focusing on self-love when I was 16 after what was one of the...
Female, Indian-American, Story
Untitled It was an obvious a-ha moment. One where you realize that all of the cliches people tell you about how you should “always be yourself no matter what people think” actually clicked. Growing up as a Native American on a small, secluded reservation...
