Postscript

6 months 3 weeks ago

Navigating my queer identity

As a queer, non-binary woman, I don’t have strong opinions about queer culture.Continue...

8 months 3 days ago

Lessons from first year: growth isn’t achieved inside your comfort zone

As the only woman in my family to attend University in a double degree program, I spent a long time idealizing the experience.Continue...

9 months 1 day ago

Learning to accept my sexuality

As a young girl, I found women beautiful.Continue...

9 months 4 weeks ago

Never not loving immensely: Learning to express my love in the face of tragedy

The story behind how I learned that life is too short and unpredictable to not show the people you love that you treasure them.

In January of 2017, I felt like I was drowning.Continue...

11 months 3 weeks ago

When I first stepped into the Journal office, it wasn’t nearly a perfect fit. The floors were covered in a respectable layer of dust and the couches reeked of cigarette smoke. I’ve now spent three years here, losing sleep over all the ways we could be better, wanting to take a breath.Continue...

11 months 4 weeks ago

Leaving law school and my guilt behind

I was thirteen years old when I performed my first magic trick. All I had to do was say the words “law school” to my parents, and they’d transform into different people. The perpendicular worry-lines which marked my mother’s forehead softened. My father smiled.Continue...

1 year 11 hours ago

Mourning my almost-lives

In Nairobi, the ghosts of all the women I could have been cascaded in and out of my body.Continue...

1 year 1 week ago

Rediscovering my love for music in adulthood

At the age of four, I first picked up a violin and started learning the language of music as an extension of my self-expression.Continue...

1 year 2 weeks ago

I’m both a journalist and a philosopher, and my work is better for it

As I approach the end of my graduate coursework, I’ve been trying to find the words to define what my time as a philosophy student has taught me.Continue...

1 year 3 weeks ago

Abortions, apathy, and forcing empowerment

On Feb. 1, I took a pregnancy test in a campus bathroom.Continue...

1 year 1 month ago

Starting to fall in love with my Blackness

Racism is inescapable.Continue...

1 year 1 month ago

Fighting mental health stigma starts from within

Growing up, the only time I can remember learning about mental health was through my hockey association’s charity.Continue...

1 year 1 month ago

Finding a language I can call my own

Ever since my family immigrated to Canada, I’ve been trying to find the perfect balance between Russian, the language of my family, and English, the language of my new home.Continue...