Strange Times: a blog

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...

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...

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,...

Apple TV's Severance is an indictment of our lack of work/life balance

In Apple TV’s newest television (can we even call our model of media consumption television anymore?), a group of employees who work in a...

The real takeaway from the Barbie movie should be how much we allow corporations to influence media

I never thought that I, a now thirty year old woman, would find myself talking about, thinking of and paying money to watch a movie about...

With mixed feelings, I became a Canadian citizen

On April 5, 2023, I became a Canadian citizen. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t shed a tear when the clerk played a video compilation of...

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