Personal Stories | Only Being You

Pretty for a Brown Girl

The concept of beauty has always been skewed for me. The sentence that once flattered me, now horrifies me. “Don’t compete where you...

A Special STEM Internship

Two local high schools in New Mexico have teamed up to create a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) core career...

Being Matured

Have you ever read the book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Even if you haven't read it, you've probably heard the name once. A...

Native Americans in COVID

The effects of COVID19 are undeniably apparent. Whether you believe in the virus or not, everyone has had some kind of livelihood change...

Diaries of a Mixed Kid

When I started kindergarten at my first public school, I had no concept of race or ethnicity. I had no idea that I was different than...

Asians* Unmasked | Stories of Asian America through Photographs

As most of the world shut down in early March, I found myself just trying to survive each day - anxious, drained, and helpless. Then one...

Labels

Not too long ago I came out to my sisters as pansexual. Apparently they didn’t know that I was pansexual, and I had just assumed they did...

No-bake, Egg-free, 3 Ingredient Cheesecake - Vegetarianism

Hello! My name is Shivani and I am proud to say that I am a vegetarian. Whenever people find out I’m vegetarian, one of their first...

Being Biracial

(Written Interview with Ravi Gadasally) Born and brought up in Los Angeles, California, Ravi Gadasally is a freshman at the Los Angeles...

Yellow Peril: Why it’s damaging

Hi! My name is Laura and I’ll be a rising senior at Crescent Valley this upcoming year. As a person born under the one child policy in...

Stereotyping

School is generally considered to be a place full of learning. However, the social aspect of school is an area of gray. An area where...

To be or not to be: a split identity

Sahana Surya Shah. My full name. Yes, triple S, like a snake. Sahana, meaning tolerance in Sanskrit, Shah, a common last name in Northern...

Representation

Identity is difficult to define, just as someone’s entire life is hard to explain with only a few words. In my case, the words that...

The Rainbow Connection

When you’re a little kid, you don’t understand that some people might not like some aspect of you or your family—especially if you’re as...