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CULTURE: What’s So Black About Black TV?

On Boxing Day, after packaging various leftovers and saying goodbye to family friends and neighbours, I sat down to watch the finale of “Insecure.” The […]

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PROSE POEM: Young, Dumb, &

White trucks shoot through the bridge at night. My house floats behind us, a golden fruit in the refrigerator of the neighborhood. I really wanna […]

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Who’s Right? Whose Birthright?

  I first heard about Birthright, a free trip to Israel offered to young Jews, as I was being Bat Mitzvahed in Jerusalem. My family […]

Paradise is Monotonous

  “Between my house and my pulpit,” Prophet Mohammed tells us in one of his more notable utterances in hadith — the Islamic prophetic traditions […]

Miracle in Progress

  Holy Land USA. hides in plain sight. Although it’s often spoken of as a “Christian theme park,” there’s no flashy “This Way to Holy […]

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Mama’s Boy

My mom is a straight-laced and unimpulsive woman. She votes early in every election, makes grocery lists of seasonal health foods three months in advance […]

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34I

Jeniene Ferguson looks like she’s about a 36B, give or take a cup size. I’m not the first person to try and guess. Her male […]

TALK IN THE TOWN: We Can Be These People

In the third installment of “Talk in the Town,” Mag’s one-of-a-kind podcast, reporters Camara Aaron and Nyeda Sam probe the Yale Dramat’s production of Spring […]

Aoi Saito’s Three Names

Aoi Saito has three names. The first: Aoi. This is the name she asked me to call her by when we met on a cold […]

My Vagina and Me: A Brief Herstory

I. “There’s a Word for That,” said the Cat in the Hat “Are they both girls?” asked the vegan private school yogi mom. “He’s a […]

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Hidden Neighbors: For trafficked domestic workers, exploitation can be a family affair

On May 5, 2011, just before 10 a.m., a state police officer and a special agent from Homeland Security Investigations showed up on the doorstep […]