Cultural Studies: My Son, the N-Word, and Knowing Your Memes
October 7th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Love is love, but fear is many things
October 7th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Love is love, but fear is many things
July 26th, 2024 | by Emily Robbins
Again and again, the women in my stories feel confined by external notions of what they should be
March 15th, 2022 | by Milda M De Voe
He didn’t even have the words to say “speak English”—he only knew that my language was not the language everyone else in his world was now speaking, and that enraged him
March 10th, 2020 | by Kira Garcia
Whether my son turns out to be a boy, a girl, or neither, I want him to know that our bodies belong to us and that language is important. This applies to names, pronouns, and of course, body parts.
February 28th, 2020 | by Lisa Wilde
In her new book, Quando Sono Italiana/When I am Italian (SUNY press, 2019), Joanna Clapps Herman looks at what it means to be raised as an Italian in America—coming from a culture where, as she writes, “children are more central to life than even food.”
January 29th, 2020 | by Melissa Chandler
I forget I was once a person who could sit with nothing but words for hours, rearranging them, creating something where before was only blank space. Now I’ve helped create you, and it feels as if we’ve been walking together in a deep wood.
February 11th, 2019 | by Kuo Zhang
Pregnancy I have known the secret joy of pregnancy, clip-clop of heartbeats in duet, high-fives across the belly, a mini-stove
January 30th, 2019 | by Aren Aizura
Chestfeeding. Autocorrect doesn’t know this word and changes it to chested. Chestfeeding was what my daughter Kit and I did
October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer
You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You
June 29th, 2018 | by Connie Pertuz-Meza
Connie, I don’t doubt that you can do anything you set your mind to. Nia’s words on yesterday’s group text