Stories tagged: "personal essay"


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Pandemic Poultry and 18th Century Menswear: COVID Let Me Embrace My Inner Weirdness

By September, I had become the kind of guy who wanders around the garden in a combination of historical menswear and faded sweatpants, casually referring to himself as “basically a hobbit.”

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I’m a Black Woman From the South. This Is What Freedom Means to Me.

I was raised to expect the best from the United States because the founders demanded it, but I also learned that America can enslave, rape, exploit, and disappoint.