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Drawing of a women with a blue bag

The City Was a Woman Too

What does it mean to travel as a woman in a world built by ...

A lake in the woods by night

Learning to be beautiful, learning to be brown

A personal recollection of how beauty ideals, colourism, and migration shape self-image: What does ...

Cobra Clutch

I had felt nauseous for days, unable to bring myself to eat. Then one ...

Lily Kensington holding a basket with a phone in it. Lily is wearing a mask with a dog snout and a pink dress.

Lily Kensington: Diva as Dialectic

“I no longer believe in authenticity. I believe in staging.” In the city, performance ...

So Many Boxes, So Little Shelf Space

So Many Boxes, So Little Shelf Space

In this warm, reflective essay, the author unpacks more than furniture in her new ...

Mildew Blossom

In the beginning, I focus on the apartment. I rearrange the furniture in the ...

Silhouette of people standing near fence

Stories from the exclusion zone: no human being is illegal

A refugee stuck on a dam is hanging upside down. After a while, he ...

Between German Kindergarten Games and Confucianism — a search for identity

Amid a backdrop of political uncertainty and rising xenophobia, E&M editor Alberto Méndez contacts ...