“When a state-wide religion and culture has the structure of an MLM, being recruited by an MLM 'missionary' may feel second-nature.”

“I don’t actually want to be married in a few months. I don’t want to have a husband at the age of twenty-two. I don’t want it!”

“Once you’ve shown someone technicolor, there’s no turning on the black and white.”

We have control over how we define masculinity. We get to decide what being a man means. And it is increasingly frustrating to me to watch my male peers inherit and perpetuate a tradition of masculinity which turns scared boys into furious, vengeful men. This does not serve us well. We could be sincerely good and masculine, but accomplishing this balance requires us to redefine what masculinity means to us.

You can’t say “it’s not about race”

When my white family is justifying 

His claims

But my brown family

Is afraid and devastated 

That who we voted for

Did not win

A story about faith, fate, and the near-misses that shape us.

“We sit inside, perfectly still, hoping that if we don’t move they can’t see us.” The increasingly suffocating reality for undocumented immigrants and their families is highlighted in this piece titled “This House is Made of Fear.”

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