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The Performance of Motherhood in Peter Pan: Growing Up is a Trap
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie opens with a scene in the Darling household’s nursery, where the novel also ends through a kind of closure by return. The nursery, for the Darling children, represents a place of maternal comfort, for it is in this room in their home where they are taken care of by their…
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An Open Letter to My Stretch Marks
Dear Stretch Marks, I would be a wealthy young lady if I had a dollar for every time I looked at you and wished you had never appeared on my body. For most of my life, I remember hating you because you represented a fact I did not want to face–I was growing up, and…
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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness: A Review
Memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies in general all have a special place in my heart, especially when they deal with mental health. Nagata Kabi’s “My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness” is a manga built on looking in at oneself. It is also a relatively short piece but one that I personally could not put down. Something about the…
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Returning Home
Nos·tal·gia /näˈstaljə,nəˈstaljə/ (noun) noun: nostalgia; plural noun: nostalgias a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. “I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college” Coming back home after living on my own for three years is a bizarre mix of sentimental feelings…
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Reflections on the First Year
Do you remember when you were about 16 years old, walled up in your room at your parents’ house, counting down the days until you moved out? Maybe if you were like me, you just couldn’t wait. Adulthood sounded a lot like freedom, and you were living in what could be described as a dictatorship…
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