by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mido Makasardi ©️. The day after George Floyd’s murder, the neighborhood residents around S. Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans began their daily nine-minute silent protest, as silent as a protest can be with the St. Charles streetcar rumbling down the...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mikhail Nilov. “Since the beginning of 2020, I have submitted 700+ job applications-” I stopped reading the Facebook post written by a friend I made in graduate school where we were working towards a master’s of public health a few years ago. I exited...
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by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Pavel Danilyuk. The evening the pregnant woman stopped me a block away from my apartment in the French Quarter was a typical early pandemic evening. There were only a few people walking or running around, some cycling. The sun was setting, painting the...
by Bodil S. Lund | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: ready made. I do not know about the places where you live, but in Denmark, where I live, it seems another trend of clothes or food or technology or whatever swoops over the country every three months. Last winter, in a turn of events, that to me, seemed...
by Bodil S. Lund | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Photo By: Kaboompics.com. When on the topic of climate change and other environmental and sustainable issues attitudes connected with doomism, escapism and denialism are never far away. What connects these isms is the inclination towards a passive...
by Bodil S. Lund | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Lisa Fotios. The truth is that I really, truly, deeply love avocados, and I want to eat guacamole with everything all the time. However, we all know (and this is especially true when you live in Scandinavia) that avocados are an exotic, expensive,...
