What would it mean to rethink our definition of masculinity? Jonathan P. Higgins calls for an unlearning of our warped understanding of what it means to be a man, and a new definition that makes space for wholeness.
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Has motherhood swallowed me whole or have I been burying myself in it?
It’s difficult to find examples of nuanced disabled characters in literature. Marian Ryan writes about her experience becoming disabled in middle age and her search to find someone like herself in the world of books and movies around her.
In featuring black characters who confounded stereotypes, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gave language to a generation of black Americans looking for affirmation of their experiences.
Blackness expresses itself in complicated and varied ways across the world.
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.
The power of honoring our emotions as truth is to allow them to complicate — and enhance — how we understand the world and each other.
We all have habits and histories that lie in shadow, uncomfortable to face. But what if we went beyond acknowledging our shadow side and reclaimed it for the better?
Black women are blazing a new trail for yoga — one that shatters the barriers of race, culture, and class that previously excluded them. How women of color are embracing the strength of their bodies and spirits through vinyasa flows set to Future and Gucci Mane.
To be a tía — an aunt — is a singular honor. On the bittersweet truth of choosing not to have children, and the gift of deeply loving a child who isn't one's own.
The turbidity of Melbourne's Yarra River reflects the murkiness of inner life. When faced with loss and joy, we must sink into shadows before we can make the crossing — and emerge more whole on the opposite shore.
At a certain point, we come to the realization that our mothers have interior lives entirely separate from us. On the conceptual challenge of seeing our mothers as whole human beings.
A young, gay Mormon’s testimony sparked a rift in her community — but, Erika Munson wonders, must we give in to the instinct to take sides? On lingering in the complex questions with a spirit of compassion that has room for our differences.
It's scary to surrender control, but good can come from letting the chips fall where they may.
Conspicuous consumption may be on the decline, but does the alternative reproduce privilege in a more exclusionary way?
Our daily lives are narratives we wrap ourselves in. But sometimes the grind keeps us from truly connecting with the world around us.
An ode to a sentence from the legendary poet on recognizing and honoring the sacrifices of generations past to get us where we are — and on "paying it forward" as the best way to pay them back.
Through the intimacy of chosen mother-daughterhood, a woman navigates the fraught territory of craving Chinese identity as a white American — and recognizes that some identities cannot be earned or learned, but are gifts passed on.
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