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 12, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross developed a theory of seven stages of grief for dealing with the phenomena of loss. As we make our way through the aftermath of the elections, I find myself reaching for some emotional theory like this. I want some explanation for this emotional...
by Aya de Leon | Nov 2, 2020 | Action, Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
On the day before the election, I have packed you this survival kit. It has the music you need and a strong perspective for leftists. Take it. Carry it in your pocket. If you’re going to the polls, or have already voted. Or if you can’t vote for whatever...
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...
by Aya de Leon | Oct 5, 2020 | Guest Post, Personal Essays
Things were starting to feel normal – we were finally acclimated to our pandemic lives. We took walks on our suburban streets without the paranoia of others on our paths threatening our health, met friends in our backyards for socially distanced gatherings, set out...
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