When Home Is At War
I am sitting in my office. Outside my window, the day is ordinary. Students walk across campus carrying coffee cups and backpacks. Colleagues pass by, discussing research, deadlines, and conferences....
Humanity explores the human condition and what it means to be alive in today's world. Sometimes, this can be practical, lived politics as they impact our lives and how we seek to change the world around us, or a distillation of those experiences we have yet to fully unearth, in the gaps and fringes of ourselves.
Pet Getting Older — So Am I
It was 2007, I was 13 years old, and me and my brother were playing football in a park next...
Parents: Surprise, They’re Human Too!
For many children, our parents are our whole world. They are the people whom we idolize most in the first...
Carolina Maria de Jesus: The Day Hunger Stopped Being Abstract
During Brazil’s 2026 Carnival, one of the most celebrated names was that of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus. She was...
When the World Stopped, I Kept Going
I sat in my bedroom, recovering from the flu, not knowing what would happen later that day. It was March...
Brazil’s Online Betting Surge and the Rise of a Gambling Epidemic
Backing New Beginnings: Refugee Entrepreneurs Find Support Across Britain
Co-working app takes on café life with one-hour slots
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HUMANITY
The Nuances of Gender, Clothing, and Society
Clothing is just fabric. It can be “gendered” by society or made gender neutral by individuals. It’s just textiles. I aim to exist gender-neutrally in this world, and gender-affirming clothing...
Starting Anew Within the Old
The move Growing up, I always thought I would get an apartment near the city. Something bigger but cozy, and not a pain to clean. It would ideally be on...
Springtime For Iran? The Iranian Haft-Sin and the Eighth “S”: Soghoot (Collapse)
The Iranian New Year arrives with spring, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that spring finds its meaning through the Iranian New Year. One of our most beautiful...
Missiles That Attack Your Heart Thousands of Kilometers Away
My first experience with war — yes, the first one — was when I was five years old. I remember it clearly. I was born in the winter of 1982,...
Peonies and Moon Trees
Today, in the stillness of winter, I realized how brilliant my twin brother is. I have always thought of him as highly intelligent. More than that, though, he is a...
My Future Could Have Been Affected, Too
Writer’s Note There have been initiatives to rename special education programs. I use this terminology because it’s the phrase with which I’m most familiar due to it being used during...
The First Sunrise After The Dictator
This morning, I woke up in exile, as I did in the last 42 months. The same winter light over a Canadian sky. The same distance — thousands of kilometers...
Because English!
The English language can be a fickle bastard. It does what it wants and is heavily unregulated. But that’s part of what makes it so interesting. During my time as...
Just Another Day in a Nigerian Market
The Nigerian marketplace is a potpourri of interesting experiences. Experiences you won’t get or have anywhere else. You want to be cracked up? Head on. You want to be comprehensively...
The Legacy of Babcia and Dziadzio
Picture perfect I miss them, you know. I’ve come to learn and understand that loss is multifaceted. When losing significant others, you can miss and yearn for the person you...
Mythical Overcoming
Overcoming Looking at the title, I can appreciate you may be expecting a somewhat downbeat or defeated article. My hope is that in exploring the subject, quite the opposite can...
Iran to the Interstellars: Can You Hear Us?
This is a message to interstellar powers. If you think you are a “Human,” do not read on. Hi there, I hope you can hear me. I am calling you...
Witnessing the Unthinkable in Iran
There is a Persian proverb that says, “Hearing is not the same as seeing.” These days, I can no longer trust even my eyes. On one side, I see the...
Flowering
Flowering Go ahead and flower dear Let your colors shine So slowly the leaf unfurls Yet, so quickly you die. But the joy is in the rising Inching upward in...
Counting the Days Until Freedom in Iran
These days, with the eyes of the world on widespread protests in Iran, my mind returns to September 2022. I left Iran just three weeks before the killing of Mahsa...