“The poetry of two black American female poets, Phillis Wheatley and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, are both, if not political statements, records of the politics of their time.” Steven Chung reflects on the poetry of two African American women.
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“Of course, the more I tried to get away from that past, the more I ran right into it.” M. M. Adjarian’s story of self discovery.
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“They grab you and pack their belongings quickly and they flee. They flee to another land… but don’t hold your breath. The storm isn’t over.” Juan Zapata’s impassioned letter confronting racism.
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“Cemeteries keep company with cities like trails of smoke…Like an actual city, the public cemetery is made up of twelve neighbourhoods, including the areas where the Chinese (including my great-grandfather) and Jews were once buried.” Kevin Chong meditates on his father’s death in Canada.
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“This letter does you about as much good living as dead, so I opted to share it only when doing so wouldn’t disrespect the bounds you so clearly set forth in your life.” Mandy Shunnarah writes to her dead mentor.
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“…in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical safety and mental wellbeing.” Aaron Grierson confronts prejudice against bisexuality.
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“It is the second time I have saved him from killing himself.” Noah Klein tells the painful personal story of sharing a parent’s struggle.
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“Chicken nuggets are safe. But they’re fucking boring.” Arielle Sokoll-Ward writes about discovering herself in New Zealand after losing the love of her life for our Globetrotter series.
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“In Asia alone, there live 4.4 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people. But when top-notch recruitment firms in the West claim they found a new multimillion pay-packet CEO after a “global†search, just how global was it?” Vinay Kolhatkar continues his investigation into the prejudice against foreigners in the Western working world.
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“…the glass-ceiling bias impeding immigrants is manifested in a bias against those speaking with non-native accents, the strongest signal of immigrant status — detected quickly and apparent almost continuously.” Vinay Kolhatkar investigates the glass ceiling for immigrants in English-speaking countries.
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