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April 27, 2018

What Language Do We Share in Diaspora?

Written by Fariha Róisín

The language and experience of what it means to grow up South Asian in the West is still largely unexplored. "Bend It Like Beckham" was the first movie to embrace these questions — to pave way for those growing up without examples of who they could become.

April 26, 2018

What We Inherit and What We Pass On: A Conversation with Terese Marie Mailhot

Written by Kristin Lin

How do we make sense of our life and work in the context of the generations that come before us? An interview with Terese Marie Mailhot about her debut memoir, "Heart Berries."

April 24, 2018

Teaching Saves My Life Every Single Day

Written by Christina Torres

To teach is to foster a kinship — to love and be loved in return. For Christina Torres, her work as a teacher has helped her manage her anxiety and depression.

April 23, 2018

Sitting Alongside Suffering

Written by Courtney E. Martin

Suffering is universal. It’s time I grew wiser about how to sit alongside it.

April 21, 2018

We Are All Part of Prince’s America

Written by Kristin Lin

In his dynamic six-part tribute to Prince, Anil Dash makes the case for how the High Priest of Pop encapsulates the beautiful and complicated story of the American project.

April 20, 2018

It’s Going To Be Okay, and It’s Not Going To Be Okay

Written by Elena Zhang

What does it mean to embrace grief when it feels boundless? Elena Zhang finds answers in her writing — and in watching HBO’s The Leftovers.

April 19, 2018

My Feelings Are Not My Enemies

Written by Miguel Clark Mallet

The power of honoring our emotions as truth is to allow them to complicate — and enhance — how we understand the world and each other.

April 18, 2018

Stop Asking and Answering Other People’s Questions

Written by Courtney E. Martin

Courtney Martin considers the ethical questions parents face when trying to decide where their kids should go to school — and calls us to ask ourselves if the questions we ask match our values.

April 17, 2018

Life Is a Found Poem

Written by Parker J. Palmer

Life is complexity and mystery; so is the poetry and beauty we find in it.

April 13, 2018

The Inner Conflict of Watching Black Panther as an African and African American

Written by Jeffrey Bissoy

In Black Panther, the struggle between hero and villain is not simply a fight between good and evil, but rather the difficult reconciliation between African and African American identity. Jeffrey Bissoy writes about the questions Marvel falls short of exploring.

April 12, 2018

The Right to Be Forgotten

Written by Talha Jalal

Given that most information on the internet can remain there forever, to what extent should we be able to exercise the “right to be forgotten,” to disassociate ourselves with information about our past?

April 10, 2018

What If We All Stopped for a Moment?

Written by Parker J. Palmer

The constant and unrelenting motion of life can make us forget to notice the richness of stillness, of pause. A poem from Pablo Neruda to help you remember.

April 9, 2018

The Art of Being Inefficient

Written by Ben Katt

Even the most soul-affirming work can leave us depleted and lost. Making a commitment to step away from the daily grind and listen to our "inefficiency experts" — can sustain us in the work we do and the lives we lead.

April 6, 2018

Everything Prepares Us for Something in the End

Written by Kao Kalia Yang

“Still, America is the place where we are hoping to cultivate life — even as death visits us in life and in dreams.”

April 5, 2018

The Hard Work of Disagreeing with Those Who Are Similar to Us

Written by Courtney E. Martin

In our conversations about echo chambers and the necessity of speaking across difference, we often forget the importance — and difficulty — of disagreeing with the people most like us. On what's lost when we don't make that effort.

April 4, 2018

Why Anxiety Is So Persuasive — and Pervasive

Written by Sharon Salzberg

Some fears are realistic; others are imaginary and insurmountable creations, fabrications of “free-floating hyperactivity of the mind.”

April 3, 2018

Tracing the Constellation of Your Inner Life

Written by Parker J. Palmer

The galaxy of your inner life is as rich as the sky, as deep as the universe. Parker Palmer shares a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

April 2, 2018

We Must Reckon with the Terrible Realities Hidden in Plain Sight

Written by Anjali Dayal

There is great hope in the public revelation of truths and microaggressions previously too subtle to name.

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