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Essay: 'Anak' and 'Distance' on Agency and the Filipino Mother in the 21st Century

Dec 1, 20236 min read

Essay: 'Anak' and 'Distance' on Agency and the Filipino Mother in the 21st Century

As movies, Anak and Distance illustrate two opposite extremes of the challenging reality of motherhood in the Philippines.

Review: Love and Identity in Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Gokul KP

Nov 25, 20236 min read

Review: Love and Identity in Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel Normal People is a heartbreaking journey featuring intimacy, pain, and the social dynamics of human connections.

rabhelanimguni

Nov 23, 20235 min read

Essay: The Archives

The Israel-Palestine conflict should lead us to reflect on pacifism and its ally, storytelling, for justice.

Callum Foulds

Nov 15, 20234 min read

Essay: An Office Pop Phenomenon

Callum Foulds talks office pop!

Statement about Researching IDPs and the UNHCR

Terry Trowbridge

Nov 7, 20234 min read

Statement about Researching IDPs and the UNHCR

What do internally displaced people want to save, want to preserve, and want to carry?

Review: The Profound Human Stories of 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' by Oliver Sacks

Gokul KP

Nov 5, 20235 min read

Review: The Profound Human Stories of 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' by Oliver Sacks

A review of Oliver Sacks' 1985 book featuring compelling stories of patients grappling with extraordinary neurological conditions.

Writing Life: Are you ready for NaNoWriMo?

Rosemary Twomey

Nov 1, 20233 min read

Writing Life: Are you ready for NaNoWriMo?

NaNoWriMoMo has arrived! Whether you are someone who has taken on the challenge year after year or you have no idea what the acronym stands

Euzette Fermilan

Oct 29, 20236 min read

The Art of Belonging: An Immigrant’s Reflection

A personal essay and reflection about the art of belonging from the perspective of an immigrant.

Ber Anena on Pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing, Literary Agents, and Book Publishing in Uganda

Tomas Maldonado

Oct 21, 20239 min read

Ber Anena on Pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing, Literary Agents, and Book Publishing in Uganda

Born and raised in Northern Uganda, Ber Anena writes poetry, creative nonfiction (essays and memoirs are her focus), and short fiction.

rabhelanimguni

Oct 19, 20234 min read

Essay: Tower of Babel

"By listening, churches would have abated the paranoia of homophobia and saved lives."

nabghashahid19

Oct 17, 20233 min read

Essay: Slipping Through the Cracks; the “Hostile” Woman of Pakistan

"The Woman was my alter-ego, my pretense in Pakistan where I had to force myself to submerge deep within the homogenous mix I lived in."

Gokul KP

Oct 15, 20234 min read

Essay: Ambition and The Child

The essay talks about the impact childhood experiences have on life, and how it is essential to find happiness in simple, everyday things.

Essay: Portrait of a Lady on Fire and the Myth of the Muse and the Artist

A. L. Sarino

Oct 12, 20235 min read

Essay: Portrait of a Lady on Fire and the Myth of the Muse and the Artist

When the portrayal of the artist and muse has been riddled with the male gaze, Portrait of a Lady on Fire blurs the lines...

Looting Legacies: The British Museum’s Stolen Treasures

Chao Shete

Oct 7, 20233 min read

Looting Legacies: The British Museum’s Stolen Treasures

Nightmare at the British Museum: missing treasure and renewed calls to repatriate stolen objects.

Essay: He Who is Without Sin: Nuanced Survivor Narrative or Problematic Representation?

A. L. Sarino

Sep 23, 20236 min read

Essay: He Who is Without Sin: Nuanced Survivor Narrative or Problematic Representation?

In an age where men in the media are subjected to sole agency when encountering sexual assault, the supposed solution loses its purpose.

Singing, Screaming, Croaking: Melodies in Emma Donoghue’s 'Frog Music'

Sarah Hajkowski

Sep 22, 20239 min read

Singing, Screaming, Croaking: Melodies in Emma Donoghue’s 'Frog Music'

Melody, womanhood, and fate entangle in Emma Donoghue's historical fiction novel 'Frog Music.'

Opening Up: A Personal Exploration of Asexual Identity

Gokul KP

Sep 20, 20236 min read

Opening Up: A Personal Exploration of Asexual Identity

A personal essay delving into the writer's narrative as asexual, from the initial confusion to the empowerment that accompanies visibility..

Tomas Maldonado

Sep 18, 20239 min read

Essay: El Paso, That Place with All the ‘Greasy Mexicans’

A cultural essay exploring the dysphemism and a controversy that occurred in the 80s in El Paso, Texas.

nabghashahid19

Sep 13, 20233 min read

Ruckus: The Role of Honor in Pakistan

"I want to cause a ruckus," Shahid writes about the role of honor as an entity in Pakistan, and how it affects the lives of its women.

Gokul KP

Sep 10, 20234 min read

Death Of a Friendship

An essay about the profound changes the writer has witnessed in his friendships over the years, in terms of their evolving dynamics.

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