Confessions of a 64-Year-Young Fordham Undergrad
They say, “Youth is wasted on the young.” But here I stand, a 64-year-old junior undergraduate student, living out my youth, wishing I knew then what I know now. To tell you the truth, going back to...
View ArticleA Girl, a Sword and a Symbol of Empowerment
Trigger Warning: Themes of Sexual Abuse and Violence When I was a little girl, my dad and I would sit around the kitchen table where he taught me how to read. I was especially excited on Sundays when...
View ArticleReflections on Alex Katz, Growing Up, and Learning to Look (Alone)
On a sunny weekday afternoon in November, I made a solo crosstown trip to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a hallmark of the Upper East Side and the site of the newly opened, highly anticipated Alex...
View ArticleThe Reality of Chinese Adoption
China’s international adoption program opened to the world because of the one-child policy that spanned from 1980 to 2016. This policy disproportionately affected girls and left hundreds of thousands...
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