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April 29, 2022On April 24, 1990, my father was killed in a Pennsylvania hospital. He was in the third day of recovery…
January 14, 2022“Just pull yourself up by the bootstraps!” This exclamation captures the prevailing attitude of many Americans, mostly conservatives, toward the…
November 12, 2021While scrolling through social media this past summer, I saw a lot of content surrounding the body positivity movement. Influencers…
October 29, 2021I vividly remember my first-year panic episode. It occurred the night before I had to deliver a major speech for…
