Tag: Identities

My disability falls into the category of “invisible”, meaning that someone can’t immediately perceive it from looking at me. And while I try to be as blatantly androgynous as possible, there’s an accepted fluidity in fashion and personal presentation extended to enbies who ar...

Vrilism is a contemporary spiritual tradition centered on alignment with one’s inner truth and full authentic self-expression. At its philosophical core, Vrilism emphasizes the fluidity and boundless diversity of human identity, particularly gender identity. Vrilists believe that jus...

I must admit, I paused when I got a resume from Braidan, a cheerful and well-mannered graduate student in our MA Journalism Program at Hofstra University. I’d never hired a white male research assistant before. None had ever applied. But I could see that Braidan was different. He was an ami...

Born in Japan and immigrating to the heart of Ohio at the age of four, I’ve always been drawn to making things with my hands. However, it was hard to find depictions of people who looked like me in the media or in the pictures I was consuming. I clung onto anything that felt like it was repres...

This week, we’re sharing our interview with Hannah H. Kim, a recent Stanford Ph.D. graduate, who wrote an op-ed in The Stanford Daily about multiracialism or the discussion of identifying as more than one race. Kim, who identifies as Korean American and was born in the U.S., beg...