How do you do things your own way when the rest of the world expects you to conform? Moniquill Blackgoose has been writing science fiction and fantasy since the age of twelve. According to Fantasy Cafe, she loved reading stories from the two genres growing up, but any representation of …
In 2019, I became a founding member of a group called Building Emotional Regulation Through Storytelling (BERTS). Made up of writers, illustrators, teachers, and social workers, we came together with the goal of writing a series of children’s books, akin to Arthur or Frog and Toad. Our hope is that …
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the only comic book movie I’ve seen so far that made me want to read the comic it was based on. And the part that made this movie is the famous scene where Miles officially becomes Spider-Man. It begins with the lyrics to Black Caviar …
Freedom is for the single parent struggling to pay healthcare, childcare, school tuition, and housing costs. Freedom is for the mother of three seeking an abortion because she can’t afford another child. Freedom is for the immunocompromised activist wondering when she’ll feel safe leaving home again. Freedom is for the …
I hope I’m infertile. I have enough money to get by on my own. But everything about the process of having children is expensive, especially in America. Between healthcare and childcare and school bills, one child alone would wreck my finances. I simply don’t have the money or resources that …
There’s a nature center next door to the college I attended. It used to be my favorite place to go when I wanted to get away and think. Once you set foot inside, you realize pretty quickly you’ve just stepped into a maze. The path splits off into different directions, …
Dear Marco, This is the last time you will hear from me. I am saying good-bye because our friendship was always based on a lie. I knew there was something off when, out of nowhere, you started attempting to be friends with me. We’d been going to the same school …
What a time to be alive. Four days after the election, Joe Biden is the projected winner and will become the 46th President of the United States. Trump and his supporters–politicians and otherwise–claim massive voter fraud without any strong evidence, and Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits across the country to …
If you’ve seen Broadway’s take on The Lion King (or you clicked on the video above), you might be familiar with a song called “Shadowland.” It appears in the second act, when the Pride Lands have turned into a desolate wasteland and Nala leaves home to look for anything that …
There are a few reasons why I’ll never fit in with conservatives. Anti-abortion doesn’t mean pro-life, people shouldn’t be denied services and rights based on sexual orientation, and whoever said “take our country back” in the 2016 election knew next to nothing about Native American history. But no matter where …
