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Behind the curtain
This story was originally published in Sept. 2024, see Editor’s Note below. When you think of ballet, here’s what might come to mind: fluffy…
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Losing and Finding My Worth Through Modeling
A measuring tape sits among sample sized beauty products on a crowded shelf in my bathroom. “Can I use it?”…
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Be Your Own Valentine
It is after Valentine’s Day, and all we hear in the hallways at work is, “how was your Valentine’s Day?”…
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Non-binary/Cis Passing: It’s Okay to Ask
The next drink was a grande mocha without whipped cream. Obie put the next cup in the queue after the…
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A ‘toast’ to Murray’s Bagels
Few things at Murray’s Bagels were as emblematic as the 19-year maintenance of a strict no-toasting policy that ended this…
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Where Kafka was once read, becomes Kafkaesque itself
Second-hand bookstores have always been an unlikely place of wonder for me. It was one day during high school by…
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Graduation, the word, originally comes from the Latin noun, “gradus,” a step. But today’s convention comes from the early 15th-century…
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