Life Stories


A young woman walking towards the airport with a backpack and a suitcase.

Leaving home was the smartest decision I made

Natalia Ahmed
A writer sits at a desk with a mug

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

Debby Nguyen
Photo of four girls wearing school uniforms and doing hand signs

Friends can break up too and it’s painful

Yasmin Islam

A Muslim woman sits at a desk

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

Mehvish Irshad
A woman wearing a mask resting her head on the table in front of her laptop.

The pandemic took away my college experience but I’m learning to accept it

Sabeena Wahid
Three women in headscarves, underneath a cherry blossom tree, look at the landscape below them.

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

Natalia Ahmed

two women stand together in front of a yellow wall, their backs face the camera.

This is my open letter of apology to my sister

Yasmin Islam
A person writes in a notebook.

Writing about my accident is hard, but I know I need to do it

Caitlin Arocho
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When my boss made my body feel taboo

Maheen Humayun

Woman with her head in her hands next to a laptop, notebook and glasses in a case.

What I label as perfectionism is actually self-hatred

Tamia Adolph
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I learned that closure is just a social construct

Ebony Purks
Woman with stretched out hands covering half of her face.

The COVID-19 lockdown made me forget how to talk to people

Tamia Adolph