We are obsessed with the hustle. We glorify the grinders and the go-getters; those who work 70-hour weeks, pull all-nighters, have 4 a.m. wake-up times, and manage to run a side business all the while. There’s a troubling phenomenon in our schools and workplaces right now that worships unhealthy behaviors supposedly linked to success. It […]
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Constant bad news for Black America is taking a toll
What is Blackness: Who owns it? Cassi Quayson,19, a Ghanian-American writer studying “Language and Liberation” at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study muses on these questions. She’s often caught up with innermost examinations of Black life while the rest of the world watches. In 2020’s cataclysm of the coronavirus pandemic and pervasive racial injustice, it’s […]
Mental Health Crisis Unfolds Alongside Coronavirus Pandemic
Photo taken by Dan Meyers. Lying on the grass outside her childhood home, Helena Federman shielded the sun’s rays with one hand as the other pressed her phone to her ear. On the other end of the call was her therapist, Jamie Olken, from her home office in the Upper East Side. At 1 p.m. […]
The Reality of the Emotional Support Animal System
Noah DeFranceschi has hay and chewed-up cardboard under his dorm bed. When he buys items, he leaves the boxes on the floor if they do not have too much tape or ink on them. This habitat below his bed is for his emotional support animal (ESA), Chai, a brown and white bunny who loves to […]