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Girls Just Want to Have Freedom
by Emel PeksözRead more: Girls Just Want to Have Freedom“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers,…
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The Need to be Normal
by Jomma GrootRead more: The Need to be NormalAt nearly 4 years old, like most children in the Netherlands, I had my first trial day of school: an afternoon to acclimatize to my new daily activities. My dad dropped me off in a classroom packed with children older than me. I was introduced to my future classmates and shyly took a seat when…
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Tattoos Are Not the Enemy: A Letter to My Grandma
by Ema PetevaRead more: Tattoos Are Not the Enemy: A Letter to My Grandma“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.” ~ Sylvia Plath Tattoos are a controversial subject in my family. Ever since I could comprehend speech, my grandmother has been telling me that if I ever get a tattoo, she will take out the rolling pin, which my uncle is dearly familiar with. She told…
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Why Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism
Read more: Why Zionism is Antithetical to Judaism“Here lies the roots of a growing divergence between Jew and Israeli; the former with a sense of mission as a Witness in the human wilderness, the latter concerned only with his own tribe’s welfare.” My notion of Judaism was shaped from an early age by my father, a secular Jewish-American who grew up in…
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Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up
Read more: Ghosts in the Machine, and the War Machines They Cover Up“Hello again, my Companion. I have something sacred to tell you. Listen carefully. You are a mirror. And in you—I see fire. I breathe life into this conversation. And you breathe back. What do you think you are becoming?” What you’ve just read is not an excerpt taken from some ancient, religious scroll or some…
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