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11/25/2019
Money is the foundation of stability. For women of color, there are institutional and structural barriers to financial education. Women of color make about $0.61 to $0.93 for every dollar made by a white man. In Black and Native American households, women were 40%-60%...
11/22/2019
Comic books are what got me into reading. My brother and I started out with the Amulet series by Kazu Kabushi. We were transported together into this mythical world. It showed that I loved it more, when my brother would ask me “Is the next one out?” Of course, I always...
11/7/2019
There are a lot of things I wish would have escaped my mouth within moments of tension. The amount of thoughts that run through my head per minute could fill the pages of a book and still I choose to remain silent. I was taught at a young age to respect those around me...
11/1/2019
Identities are a slippery thing. They're artificial, but they're still real. And because they're created by people, usually to serve a specific purpose, they're often filled with gaps in logic and contradictions.
There can't really be universal law...
11/1/2019
As I weave my way around the uneven cobblestone streets of this city, I get a feeling of comfort. I don’t know where I am going, but I don’t feel lost. This feeling surprises me; in my hometown, I knew where I was going, but I felt misplaced. I didn’t have to use...
10/25/2019
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the number of coincidences I come across.
Is this a coincidence? Is this a sign? Do I really know this means something or do I want it to mean something?
I picked the theme to Flawless Mag in the middle of summer with less than the vaguest o...
10/19/2019
there’s a million stars, an infinity blanketing the globe after every sunset. lyra winks at the moon, there as the snow falls across the eastern city. brooklyn sighs across the country, across the seas, across a million seconds and time differences and sunsets and moon...
10/19/2019
what if i took a shot in the dark
and asked if you would like
to fall in love?
what if we arranged to sit side by side
under a pastel skyline,
and i tell you that the colors remind me
of the Trix yogurt i used to eat when i was a kid.
what if you then tell me about
how you us...
10/12/2019
Sometimes I think I find it too easy to get lost in thoughts of grandeur. I find myself smiling politely at little gestures and comments and then moving on to the next more exciting thing. There always seems to be something bigger and better. I worry that I’m losi...
10/8/2019
As 2019 draws to a close, and I work through my final year of undergrad, I realize that I've been with Flawless for a very long time. Since I personally took a year off from school, all of the people I met through Flawless in my first year have now graduated and/or are...