Etiquette when you just don’t get it. Advice from someone with a “difficult” name — Have you ever been to the supermarket and someone calls out your name? But they were talking to someone else? Well, I haven’t. That’s because no one else in the world has my name. My name’s the one everyone fumbled on the first day of school in rollcall. Some people…

Vandana Kitariya’s tweet signals a promising coalition between Black and Dalit liberation movements — Vandana Katariya is a hockey star. She is also the first Indian woman to score a hat trick at the Olympics (Nawaz, 2021). Katariya belongs to the Dalit caste. After the women’s hockey team lost to Argentina in the semi-finals (PTI, 2021) earlier this month, a group of upper-caste men…

Drapetomania: When mental health and social control mix — Most of us have realized by now, that social mores have the potential to sway science. Our values create the lenses through which we interpret information, data, and experiences. The same is true with scientists. …

How did Trish’s 30th middle school reunion end like this? Adam stood at the podium, mic in hand, looking out over chattering tables of families and friends finishing off the last crumbs of dessert. I couldn’t believe this was our 30th middle school reunion. I was sitting next to Neil…

How the envy of a woman brought on the demise of a youthful gymnast “You’re going to get dizzy!” Dad called, trying to cover his smile as he gazed at his daughter and his daughter’s best friend, one with a ponytail of tight, thin microbraids, the other with a bun…

And showed us how boba paved the way for her heartbreak May Lin shook her purse with two angry thrusts, and an avalanche poured onto the table. A contemptuous and intimate avalanche. “Here,” her voice caught with a defiant shrill shaking the ‘r,’ “Look at everything. …

Lucia decided never to be vulnerable again so no one could reject her The day at the waterpark with María Claudia promised to be one of the best days of summer. I often wish that I could erase what happened in the end, that it winded down like any other…

To be free, we will have to give up representations based on race. We are all human, we are all flawed and amazing at the same time I’ve been thinking about the term “white trash.” I know the term is racist, and more than that, classist, but I hadn’t wrapped…

The Haitian Revolution liberated the United States and Latin America from Spain and France. Haiti inspired Greece to fight the Ottoman Empire. Say her name I lived in Peru for nearly six years. Come to think of it, in all my time, I never heard anyone mention the word “Haiti.”…