Culture


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I defied my culture’s norms and learned how to leave what didn’t serve me

Tanatswa Chivhere
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Here are 8 upcoming spring traditions you wish you knew about before travel bans

Laurie Melchionne
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There’s a dark history behind that beautiful engagement ring

Aliza Schuler

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How oppressive life expectations continues to burden my twenties

Yasmin Islam
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This is my open letter of appreciation to my mother

Natalia Ahmed

Are influencers actually a bad influence on us?

Safa Shoaib

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As a mixed-race person, I struggle with Racial Imposter Syndrome

Tamia Adolph
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This is what Black love means to me

Theresa Personna
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I sometimes imagine the stories my grandparents would have told me

Tamia Adolph

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Writing a book during the pandemic connected me to my Vietnamese culture

Debby Nguyen
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People don’t want me to talk about life as a woman in Saudi Arabia unless it suits them

Mehvish Irshad
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I consider myself to be irreligious but I’m not an atheist

Natalia Ahmed