By Danielle Kade

By embracing your specific culture and demographic, instead of demanding mutilation to reach the “ideal” corrodes the stable platform a child requires from their guardians.

By Devrani Brahmanand

Equality should be able to thrive throughout NYC to allow people from different backgrounds to feel accepted.

By Farah Javed

For every obstacle a president faced, the first lady handled attacks directed at her husband, as well as at herself. She acts as an advisor, a mother, and a hostess.

By Isabella Lopez

There was no denying it, I felt like a butterfly whose wings were crushed by a large, overpowering boot, and yet I still cling onto life.

By Mohammad Neaz

Orientalism is instilled not only throughout “The Arabian Nights” but also throughout various art forms in Western popular culture.

By Maria Jacome

I realized my dad’s strength should not be measured by a number generated by a machine or by his physical capabilities on any given day. It should be measured by the decades of perseverance and sacrifice that demonstrate an enduring soul-deep strength.

By Olha Sum

Understanding where the words we choose to employ came from and what they had originally meant can improve our ability to communicate and, more profoundly, broaden our understanding of our own nature.

By Roshelle Ferguson

One thing that always confused me was that my natural hair, growing out of my scalp, free of manipulation or chemical alteration, was an issue.

By Rosie Vollaro

At some point in her lifetime, almost every woman has experienced a version of the “Madonna-Whore Dichotomy”