Odesa addresses the traumas of struggling immigrants, who face rejection and shunning rather than acceptance and understanding.
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Humor acts as a defense mechanism, a pressure release valve, a teaching tool. As a heart surgeon, I have used laughter for all these reasons.
However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
This artwork is based on a startling and memorable encounter at the local vet while attempting to get Anaïs spayed.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
This collection of poems is a glimpse into the lives lived on the margins, where the laws put in place to protect basic rights and bodily autonomy cease to apply.