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Oct 20, 2020

Conquering A Fear Of Horror Films In The Midst Of Political Anxiety

When I was 11, a childhood friend convinced me and my brother to watch The Ring with her and her sister. I sat petrified throughout the whole movie, which I probably viewed through spread fingers, my small hands covering my face. It was perhaps the first experience I had with…

Politics And Elections

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Conquering A Fear Of Horror Films In The Midst Of Political Anxiety
Conquering A Fear Of Horror Films In The Midst Of Political Anxiety

May 24, 2020

My ‘Mrs. America’ knowledge gap: Not just a period piece, how the ERA is making headlines in 2020

This essay started out as a Facebook post. When I learn things, when I obtain information I am excited about or surprised by that moves me, my first instinct is to share it, to say to someone or everyone, “Hey, I found this thing that is meaningful to me, maybe…

Feminism

7 min read


Mar 30, 2020

Hope Floats

There’s one of two ways this can go - The first is to drown in it. Oversaturated with information, statistics and studies, advisories, warnings, predictions, projections, and people talking just to sound, just to feel, important… The public voices I’m connecting with most are the Italian mayors my coworker sent…

Empathy

8 min read

Hope Floats
Hope Floats

Published in Human Parts

·Jun 24, 2019

An Essay in the Fifth Person

When it comes to identity, the best we can do is ask questions — I recently read a writing prompt that stated that every seven years, all of the cells in our bodies shed and replace themselves, suggesting that every seven years we essentially become a new person. One of my high school teachers used to say there were two kinds of people in…

Identity

11 min read

An Essay in the Fifth Person
An Essay in the Fifth Person

Published in Slackjaw

·Feb 14, 2019

How to KonMari Your Love Life in Time for Valentine’s Day!

Start by greeting your love life - Get down into a kneeling position and close your eyes. Place your face directly on the floor and start to cry. Just a nice little sob fest to express how unsatisfied you are romantically. …

Konmari

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How to KonMari Your Love Life in Time for Valentine’s Day!
How to KonMari Your Love Life in Time for Valentine’s Day!
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