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Editor’s note: Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist in Texas whose work is supported by Empowerment Avenue, an organization that seeks to increase and normalize the inclusion of incarcerated writers in mainstream publications. On a hot day in the summer of 2024, the women’s prison visitation room had
The year was 1987, and the Nintendo Entertainment System was all I thought about. The Japanese video game console was king of the universe, and I wanted one. I was 11 years old and my life sucked in the ways that every 11 year old’s life sucks. Adolescence was
EXCLUSIVE For most of her life, Lulu Francois believed her family history was a mystery lost to time. That changed when, during a Christmas gathering seven years ago, an aunt revealed she sometimes visited a small, unkempt cemetery in Comal County. There, migrants of Mexican descent are buried on a
My sister Victoria was wrangling Elias, her then-2-year-old, into his costume on Halloween when the spots of blood in her underwear became worrisome. It was almost exactly two years ago, in 2022, and Elias had woken up from a nap excited about trick-or-treating. She’d
Dimitri Alexandrov prefers being a good guy. In the world of professional wrestling, with its history of villainous foreign heels like The Iron Sheik, fans in the U.S. are naturally inclined to boo a Russian. So, as 33-year-old Alexandrov sees it, it’s more of a challenge