Charge it to the Game by Karen Collazo

Aug 29, 2018 | Nonfiction

I checked into Miami-Dade County’s New Direction rehab facility after self-identifying as a drug addict. I signed up for the Specialized Transitional Opportunity Program (STOP), a six-month inpatient program that provided affordable housing to patients who worked...

Not Proud to be an American by Andrea Askowitz

Aug 20, 2018 | Nonfiction

I went to a small beach town in Mexico to rescue turtles. I took my daughter, Tashi, who’s 14, because I wanted to teach her about the world and do something good. I did a quick Google search – Volunteering Families – and then gave Tashi three choices: old people in...

Quiet Riot by Alyssa Terese

Aug 10, 2018 | Nonfiction

Content warning: mental illness “Are you okay?” My friend asked. I knew this crude type of emotional vertigo well. The tightness in my chest, as if my heart was about to be sucked out of my body through a straw, coupled with the sudden sensation that gravity was...

Gordita by Ary Rex

Aug 1, 2018 | Nonfiction

Not long ago, I saw this post on Facebook of a girl saying, ‘If you say I’m fat, congratulations! You have eyes.’ She was talking about body positivity and being able to wear whatever she wants during the summer, about being free in her own skin, owning it and loving...

White Noise Lobster by Nilsa Rivera

Jul 16, 2018 | Nonfiction

Every year, I’m supposed to get a hearing test. Every year, I am terrified of what my audiologist will say. This year wasn’t different. A month before my fortieth birthday, I figure I should get a hearing test as a baseline for the years to come. When I got there, the...

Dude, Not Darling by Hope Bell

Jul 9, 2018 | Nonfiction

I am asked regularly, “What are the challenges of raising a transgender child?” The only thing I can conclude is that the child is not the challenge – I mean they are, of course. Here is a shout out to all the single parents! There is a crushing, crippling...

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