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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...

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A 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...

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Reflections 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...

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The 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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