When Ilana was in first grade, she visited her mom's friend Mary Anne every Monday. Initially, she didn't question who Mary Anne was, but over time she started to understand that she was being treated for something that nobody was willing to tell her about, and that separated her from the others.

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

The Académie gendered the language. A collective of artists is undoing it.

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72 days of silence

She calls her mother in Iran for Norouz. The line is dead. Bombs are falling.

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