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Frank Ryder is a freak of nature. At least that’s what his fellow MLB players, sports broadcasters, and even Baltimore Orioles fans call him. When a pro-baseball pitcher averages 105 mph (or more) on his pitches, there’s few explanations for the 23-year-old’s crazy talent and athleticism. Despite his success on …
Etta is a 37-year-old Burmese-American lawyer living in Boston with her fiancé Jason. When readers meet her, she is mourning the loss of her grandmother, or Ahpwa. When Etta comes across treasured items while going through her belongings, the memories come flooding back and pull Etta in a direction she …
In Mexican-American culture, a chingón is known as a “badass”. In the feminine form, however, chingona means unruly woman, or a woman who is problematic. First-generation scholar Alma Zaragoza-Petty encourages women to reclaim that word. We should own it and use that badassery to heal from our own trauma and …
Queer people have existed for all of recorded history, but unfortunately they haven’t been included in that record. In fact, they are often written out of it. Even recognizable figures have partaken in intimate relations with the same sex. But those events were conveniently scrapped out of written texts. Kirsty …