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The Cringe Blog Post
Note: Numbers in parentheses correspond to endnotes. I have been transitioning from a life lived with rampant dissociation to a life of...
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Apr 26, 20229 min read
An Encounter with Another Artist
Note: The story I tell here is not intended to single out an artist and social worker, not to mention to cancel them. For this reason, I...
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Apr 19, 202210 min read
Struggling to Make a Friend
I’m back home texting with someone that Erik and I had just met at the climbing gym in the morning that I liked. Originally from Spain, L...
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Feb 5, 202219 min read
On My Greatest Accomplishment This Year, and Affirmations
"You're not responsible for others' feelings." This is one of the most important things I learned this year, and I learned it from my new...
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Jan 1, 20227 min read
A Short Tale
Once there was a people. They suffered many great injustices and tragedies and were left with very little of their own. Knowing that the...
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Sep 16, 20211 min read
On the Failure of Education
I am becoming someone else at this point and I’d like to record and share something from the being that I am now, at this point in time...
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Apr 9, 202126 min read
A visit to USCIS, and an unexpected surprise
Yesterday I went into the Brooklyn Field Office of USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) in order to get some paperwork done in...
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Feb 25, 20216 min read
An Incident of Anti-Asian Hate
*TRIGGER WARNING: racism, anti-Asian racism, misogyny, some violence* This afternoon, I shared an article on Facebook about the...
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Feb 22, 20218 min read
Towards Permanence
I am very excited to share this piece, titled "Towards Permanence," on a positive moment of hope in the path to legality for undocumented...
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Feb 8, 20212 min read
On the leadership growth of a young woman
Friday was my last day of work at the Action Lab for Social Justice at Columbia School of Social Work. After discussion with leadership,...
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Feb 1, 20218 min read
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