"How universal homesickness is, even for those who didn’t come from the best homes; these salmon came from Concrete, Washington, and they still fight like hell to come back every single year."
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
Through these reflections on heritage, I delve into being a child of parents who immigrated from the Bronx to a suburban lifestyle.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
In this four-part series, I’ll take you back through my journey from the beginning. To explore how the conditioning of the Western environment I was born into served in disconnecting me from my own inner authenticity.
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
“A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter” continues my accounting of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
"When I was first accepted into the PhD by research program in the UK, I had mixed feelings, mainly because I was about to pursue a career that I didn’t have the heart for, and partially because I would need to explore yet another new culture, country, and environment."
Michael: Tesserae 1 is part of a series written about a two-year community arts fellowship I had with a Baltimore City public middle school and surrounding communities to demonstrate the power of art for community organizing.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.
