I don’t know about you, but I’m a hopeless romantic. I love giving and receiving cutesy notes, chocolates, flowers, candles, and sweet surprises! I’ve felt this way ever since I was a child and fully grasped the reason why my classmates were giving each other those chalky heart shaped ‘candies’ labeled ‘I love you’ and ‘Won’t you be mine?’. When …
Self Love Lessons: Showing Tenderness Towards Your Past, Present, and Future
By Jae Lin I’ve been thinking deeply about the way that our identities and presences exist in a spectrum of time. I’ve been wondering about how time affects our relationship to ourselves—in growing forward, in looking backward, in predictions and trajectories, in haunting doubts, and in present mindspaces. This year, I really want to consider and explore the ways that …
Congratulations! You Made It.
By ena ganguly Hi, if you’re reading this, congratulations! You have made it to the year 2019. It’s been hard getting here. There have been so many roadblocks, naysayers and obligations in your way that may have distracted you from properly loving and caring for yourself. I know, I can relate. Even in this brand new year of 2019, as …
Three Ways to Unlearning Our Annual Resolution Freak
By ena ganguly It’s the new year. A brand new opportunity to commit to all the goals we set out to do last year but couldn’t keep up with. My question is, why do we try so hard to recommit to all the goals we know we can’t keep up with? Our resolutions are almost always setting us up for …
From Chingona to Corporate: Transitioning from Activism to Corporate America
By Lizeth Urdiales I look back at my life in admiration and forward in desperation. I use to be the biggest badass I knew. My second year of college I fought to maintain in-state tuition in Texas for undocumented students and won. My third year of college I introduced Hillary Clinton at a national conference in Washington, DC during the …
5 Heartwarming QPOC Podcast Episodes
With the weather getting chillier and chillier, one of my favorite things to do is to bundle up and listen to podcasts. In this season, I especially like to listen to tender and heartwarming media that make me feel a spectrum of emotions. Stories that share the complexities of QPOC joy and life can bring catharsis and warmth during the …
Five Easy Resolutions for 2019
By enakshi ganguly Like every year, some of us are going to create resolutions for the new year that we want to stick to. New year’s resolutions can be daunting, unreasonable, and difficult. However, before 2019 begins, I want to get proactive and think up some simple, easy to do resolutions that I would be happy to continue for the …
5 Ways to Stick to Your Routine
By ena ganguly As we move into the holiday seasons, some of us will be traveling more often, spending more time with family, chosen and biological, and may have a few work days off. Naturally, this time of the year leads us to move away from our daily routine. I know for a fact that the end of the year …
Four Ways to Combat SAD
By enakshi ganguly In Texas, we are finally feeling the onset of this bitter winter ahead of us. For some people of color, winter is a sad, sad, sad season, not only because of the drop in temperature, but also because of the gradual lack of sun light. Quite literally, it makes us feel SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), so we …
8 Ways to Support a Someone in an Abusive Relationship
By Jae Lin It is an incredible act of vulnerability for a person to open up about violence or abuse they are experiencing or have experienced in the past. Whether it’s a close friend, a family member, or a trusting community member, when someone reveals (either directly or indirectly) that they are experiencing a situation that may be abusive, violent, …
