“I wish that someone would have given me this advice before, so I hope that the poem may help others in even the smallest of ways. “
Read More“On this particular morning, the little boy woke up to a world that seemed quieter than usual. He could hear his heartbeat in his ears….” A short story from Maddie Fenster
Read More“Learn to accept me as a member of the black community, because yes I am Japanese, and yes I am black. I’m equally both, so deal with it…”
Read More“They constantly would stop her and ask, “Where did you adopt her from?” like I was a cute accessory to prove worldliness”
Read More“ I grew up learning the perspectives of both communities I belong led in and embraced my identity from both sides instead of feeling like I just don’t belong.”
Read More“I am from curves, but feeling like they were never “in all the right places” A poem by Mayzie Angel.
Read More“My prescription are closed eyes to envision this paintings clearer vision”
Read More“I believe my race doesn’t matter when it comes to who I am as a person”
Read More“Dear Humanity, please stop telling me to straighten my hair”
Read More“All my life, I have heard snippets of what life was like there - devastating earthquakes, martial law, machine guns echoing in the middle of the night…”
Read More“While exploring my thoughts I realize that while my eyes may not be the bright hue of the ocean, they are still just as important, just as beautiful.”
Read More“The morning of Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, will forever be ingrained in my mind as the morning my family truly understood how the rest of this country understood us.”
Read More“Being a film director, from my perspective, especially as a person of color, a mixed race individual, puts you in a position of telling stories rarely told in media.”
Read More“The ability to fit in anywhere suddenly becomes the ability to empathize with anyone.”
Read More“What I am shouldn’t have mattered, but in this world, a lot of things that shouldn’t matter tend to divide us more than we’d like to admit.”
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