For most of my life, kids I have met must assume I have everything. I make friends easily, naturally excel at sports and earn good grades. When I entered High School, most of…
Sometimes things require extra effort for me”¦or at least that’s what I have told myself. And I must admit this is something I’ve always been a little bitter about. When I was…
Check out RBC Flaunt It Award finalist Marica James incredible video titled Gray ! “In life everyone has internal struggles and occasionally it seems like things are only two-sided – that…
Sometimes I felt like the anniversary of Pearl Harbor was like a second birthday, and a terrible one at that. You know those birthdays that you know you should be happy, but your…
“This piece represents the hardships that I have endured in my life. The textures, found objects, spray paint and even the glitter offer a glimpse into who I am as a girl becoming…
I was already eight, but I still had no words. One winter in second grade, nai nai and gong gong visited us. As they stepped through the door to leave, my father gave…
“I am different because I’m an outlier. I am constantly taking the path less taken. Everyone else fits nicely into categories and groups and I am that one piece in the puzzle that…
I was an alien. Simultaneously trapped in two different worlds that loved and hated me. My feelings were a puzzle I could not put together. Perhaps I didn’t belong in this world. Perhaps…
My work deals with my ADHD that I live with on a day to day basis. It makes a lot of things difficult for me. Expressing my thoughts and feelings through words is…
I remember your eyes like juniper and mint leaves, the eyes you said held me when I was just a twinkle in your mind. Narrowing at the girl who refused to sit on…
Just as women are put under a lot of pressure to act feminine, men are put under even more pressure to act masculine. Usually, if…
Five, six, seven, eight: a count off before you begin a dance. This was screamed every time we’d start a dance at a theatre company I’d lost interest in two years ago. The…
“Wow, your hair is so weird! Elliot, feel this!” Though I did not know what it was at the time, I first experienced what can be called a microaggression on my first day…