Taylin Im I grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist church, one of the smaller and more obscure fundamentalist denominations of Protestant Christianity. My background in religion involves growing up in Guam where my […]

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Elaine Hang For the longest time, I felt like an alien in my own body. During my childhood, I didn’t pay much attention to crushes or kissing. I was confused why some young girls […]

Ari Laurel Sailor Mars was my first crush, and I think when I realized it — when I realized I didn’t simply like her hair, didn’t only admire her sass, didn’t just want […]

Tracy Nguyen Mom, the one thing in my life that hurts me the most is not being honest with you. Exactly one year ago on January 17th, I unexpectedly came out to my […]

Diane Kim This is about love but not just any type of love this is my love a white wall tainted by words tainted by religion tainted by media tainted by me LEVITICUS 20:13 […]

The steps were easy. At least in my mind. Go to “Contacts.” Type in “M—,” oh there it is. Press “Mom.” Then hit the green phone-shaped button to dial. By the time the […]

Karen Marie Maliwat Villa My mother and her sister were 2 of 7 children to attend college in the Philippines. My mother worked as a teacher under the first female in the Philippines […]

Yen Nguyen I was 12. She looked at me with those eyes and I would forget my name. I loved to make her laugh because the sound of her voice was all I […]