“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
The process of seeking pregnancy alone (by necessity, not choice) showed me how limited reproductive rights in the U.S. truly are—even before the recent loss of Roe vs. Wade, that policy that had so shaped my generation’s belief in our bodily autonomy.
""Mourning (Unfinished)" is an essay about the way my experiences with farm animals helped me come to terms with a miscarriage."
Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.
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.
I wrote a study of my own faith, bankrupt as it may be, using story of my father, through the lens of Jewishness as I define it for myself.
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.