Tag: Upper

I’m a freelance writer for a reason. For the times when I chose to work for the man, I felt caged, controlled, and almost angry at myself for allowing myself to be belittled regularly. I understand that in whatever work we do, we’re all accountable to someone else at some poin...

In 2020, with $170k saved for a downpayment, I was poised to finally fulfill my family’s dream of homeownership. As renters, my immigrant family had always seen home ownership as a cornerstone of building generational wealth, a way to stop “paying someone else’s mortgage.” Li...

This is extremely emotionally complicated, because all the component parts are. If you’ve been the victim of a sexual assault, that in and of itself is complicated and most people cannot understand what that might be like. If you’ve been falsely convicted (or even accused) of s...