My Parents are anti-vaxxers
My parents are against getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Before 2020, I never heard them say anything about conspiracies or anything close to being fanatical. Then in the early months of the pandemic, my mom or dad began to show me random Facebook posts with captions like “Covid is a hoax!” alongside a crude illustration of […]
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What Online Learning Has Been Like For Me
In mid-March 2020, I was having a wonderful week in school until I heard these words come out of my 8th-grade science teacher’s mouth: “So guys, if you haven’t heard about COVID-19, cases are rising so there’s a possible chance we’ll be out of school, and if it gets worse, we might not come back.” […]
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My Family Taught Me About My Roots
When I was in elementary school, I noticed that White students were favored by my teachers, from being picked first to be class monitors to being excused when bullying other children. In toy stores, my sister and I looked at rows and rows of White dolls wondering why none of them looked like us. There […]
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Should I Go to College or Make Money?
After hearing my name announced on YouTube as a graduate of the class of 2020, I felt relieved. I shut my laptop and threw my black cap toward my bedroom ceiling. Later on, my family had a small party with graduation balloons and sandwiches. There was also a chocolate ice cream cake with blue frosting. […]
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