We chose “freedom” for July’s editorial theme at the beginning of the year (for the obvious reasons), but now, reading that word makes me sick to my stomach. This week we celebrate our country’s freedom and independence, and yet we continuously deny that same deserved freedom to asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees. And for those […]
In Her Words: Yasmin Ahram on Freeing Herself
Everyone had an opinion about it, but only because I let them. It wasn’t about proving other people wrong, although that was a great byproduct. It was about proving to myself that I could. My hair was such a big deal, and I wanted to strip it from all the meanings it had accumulated. Most […]