by Aya de Leon | Nov 23, 2020 | Opinion
So it has been 20 days since the presidential election. Every major news outlet has called it for Biden, including Fox. We knew Tr*mp couldn’t win, not if people of color, progressives, and young people came out to vote against Tr*mp, even if we didn’t...
by Aya de Leon | Nov 18, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
When it was reported that Donald Tr*mp had been diagnosed with COVID, I thought that was it. He had all the risk factors to become a coronavirus fatality. I had read the stories of people on ventilators, getting all the medical help, but they died anyway. I assumed...
by Aya de Leon | Nov 16, 2020 | Opinion
As a parent I have to help my child learn the difference between wants and needs. There are many things the kid wants, but not all of them are a good idea. As a mom I am constantly setting limits. In those moments, I offer space to listen to the upset, but I don’t get...
by Aya de Leon | Nov 3, 2020 | Opinion
Aya de Leon: As a pathological clutterer, half my anxiety this election cycle was about whether or not I had misplaced my ballot. I have probably been voting by mail for a decade. In the pandemic, I didn’t want to do what I usually do when I misplace my ballot:...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Oct 28, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
Angela Davis, a citizen-heroine, of the United States, who has fought intensely over many decades for her ideals of what the US is capable of becoming. An inspiration. *** I am a citizen, in a sense, of two Empires. I was born in 1961, in the village of...
by Aya de Leon | Oct 26, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Opinion, Personal Essays
My parents were young when they had me. Not teens, but young adults. They were married and in their mid-20s, so it wasn’t remarkable, but as a couple, they weren’t prepared for the responsibilities of parenthood—especially my father. Both of them had very rough...
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