Starting Anew Within the Old
The move Growing up, I always thought I would get an apartment near the city. Something bigger but cozy, and not a pain to clean. It would ideally be on...
Humanity explores the human condition and what it means to be alive in today's world. Sometimes, this can be practical, lived politics as they impact our lives and how we seek to change the world around us, or a distillation of those experiences we have yet to fully unearth, in the gaps and fringes of ourselves.
The First Sunrise After The Dictator
This morning, I woke up in exile, as I did in the last 42 months. The same winter light over...
Because English!
The English language can be a fickle bastard. It does what it wants and is heavily unregulated. But that’s part...
Just Another Day in a Nigerian Market
The Nigerian marketplace is a potpourri of interesting experiences. Experiences you won’t get or have anywhere else. You want to...
The Legacy of Babcia and Dzadzio
Picture perfect I miss them, you know. I’ve come to learn and understand that loss is multifaceted. When losing significant...
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Brazilian Music Icon Milton Nascimento Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Gal Costa’s Final Performance Released as Posthumous Album
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My Future Could Have Been Affected, Too
Writer’s Note There have been initiatives to rename special education programs. I use this terminology because it’s the phrase with which I’m most familiar due to it being used during...
Mythical Overcoming
Overcoming Looking at the title, I can appreciate you may be expecting a somewhat downbeat or defeated article. My hope is that in exploring the subject, quite the opposite can...
Iran to the Interstellars: Can You Hear Us?
This is a message to interstellar powers.If you think you are a “Human,” do not read on. Hi there,I hope you can hear me. I am calling you from Iran,...
Witnessing the Unthinkable in Iran
There is a Persian proverb that says, “Hearing is not the same as seeing.”These days, I can no longer trust even my eyes. On one side, I see the vast...
Flowering
FloweringGo ahead and flower dearLet your colors shineSo slowly the leaf unfurlsYet, so quickly you die. But the joy is in the risingInching upward in the sunSipping from clear watersTill...
Counting the Days Until Freedom in Iran
These days, with the eyes of the world on widespread protests in Iran, my mind returns to September 2022. I left Iran just three weeks before the killing of Mahsa...
Watch Your Step
“Gender works in part through these verbal exchanges where someone’s adherence with the rules or norms for people of their gender identity is called into question.” —Lee Airton, author of...
If This Year Went Too Fast, The Fault Is In The Planets
Every December, I am reminded once again that I come from a country where Christmas is not part of our cultural calendar. In Iran, we follow a solar calendar that...
Screw the Standard-Issue Labeling Machine
Message: “Aunt nell, Nanti hettie. Dooey daiture and quinque, parker, Bona lavs, ducky. “Polari translation: Listen, I am not straight. In 2025, I give you my best wishes, my dear....
Dyeing to Learn the Color Code
My punk history I wasn’t always into punk rock. The first genres that I was into were classic rock and metal. The first album I picked for myself was Guns...
HelloGoodbye
I’m all too familiar with that clench in my stomach when I first enter a room, knowing it’s full of strangers and not a familiar face in sight. From childhood...
Amigo, No Amigo
About 15 years ago, I lived in a little corner of West London that played out like the Wild West of the city. If you say West London to most...
An Apple For My Teacher
In 1995, my 6th grade social studies teacher at the private Catholic school in town fell ill early in the first semester of the school year. Enter Mr. H, now...
Halloween, A Thousand Feet High
Costumed kids,Pumpkin pie,Wind whipsAnd trees sigh:My tears run(GeneratorDies), and youDon’t ask meNot to cry,But say, “HoldOut your hand.” I soar upwards, watching the world simultaneously minimize and enlarge before my...
Every Day Is Halloween in Iran
Halloween comes once a year for most. A night of masks, spooky movies, and pretend scares. But in Iran, under the rule of the mullahs, every day is Halloween. The...