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Meg Sequeira
Oct 30, 20246 min read
Halloween, Satanic Panic and the Devil in my shampoo bottle
Coming out of the washroom, the woman grabbed my wrist as I turned to close the door to my bedroom to drown out the noise of the prayer...
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Meg Sequeira
Oct 18, 20245 min read
I voted!...for the first time ever
My introduction to the concept of voting came to me, like many western ideas, from an Archie comic. Through the comic’s oft-swollen and...
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Meg Sequeira
Sep 20, 20248 min read
It's been twelve years since I left, am I still “Dubai Girl”?
Even in the midst of a pitch black sky, I could tell we weren’t far from landing at Dubai International Airport when I looked out the...
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Meg Sequeira
Mar 3, 20245 min read
Contraband: a meaty, short (true) story
Just act natural, I tell myself. Act natural! I straighten my back and run my fingers through my then long, dark hair, tugging on my...
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Meg Sequeira
Nov 22, 20236 min read
Redux (2017): I am an Immigrant
This article was originally posted in a Christian publication during the refugee crisis created by the Syrian civil war. The brutality of...
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Meg Sequeira
Oct 25, 20235 min read
Brown blood, white prerogative
I walk away. I always walk away.. I don’t have the energy or the heart to tell them why I won’t do it: I won’t have my baby’s broken,...
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