By Sarah Thankam Mathews
No normal girl will even say something like that, Kamala, my mother had hissed into the phone, no normal girl wants to be alone, how can you even say such a thing.
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Grand Tour
By Aatif Rashid
And he did, there on the hood of her car, he kissed her, the first time he’d ever kissed anyone—and he was so overwhelmed with the seeming impossibility of it, him, a brown kid, a Pakistani kid, kissing Lauren, who wasn’t just a white girl, but the white girl, straight A student, varsity lacrosse player, first chair flute in the marching band, mom in the PTA, dad in finance, older brother at Harvard, a big, old, old house with tall sycamores out front, and an extended family that was an amalgam of the DNA of all the counties of the Old World, melted together over the centuries into a pure American identity.
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The Artists' Roundtable
Senna, Hafsa, Anum, Nazish, Nahal, Mariam & Seyhr
The pressure of "what am I painting and/or why?" can be crippling and I think we often forget that there's this whole tradition out there of believing in and appreciating the process of art-making for what it is. Can definitely be really liberating!
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