Today I awoke with an interesting thing on my Facebook timeline. Epic Armory invited me to like their page. Now, ordinarily this would mean absolutely nothing. And to be fair (I’m very fair) it may have meant nothing. However, due to what has occurred over the past few days it felt to me, an odd …
I was ten years old when my mother told me my father had been diagnosed with HIV. I remember thinking that it meant he was going to die. After all, that’s what happened. It was a big secret. I wasn’t supposed to tell. However, I told my grandmother nigh immediately. It was too much to …
On a cold night in Norway, I pressed my back against a yellow wall, breathing shallow anxiety induced breaths. I had been patiently waiting and nervously planning coming to Oslo for months. I’ve never traveled solo internationally, and I was terrified. These were my first moments of Knutepunkt, an academic conference that is based around …
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