Shedding my American Skin: My First Steps in Cuba
My iPhone pinged with a notification from my service provider, T-Mobile, informing me that they would no longer be providing service to my device due to my new location: Havana, Cuba. My Spanish class had only been in the Havana airport for a few minutes…
Shedding My American Skin: The Dangers of Being Too Woke
A quick Google search will tell you that the Oxford English meaning of the word ‘woke’ is: “alert to injustice in society, especially racism”. It’s an adjective meant to describe the socially aware but has also become a trendy buzzword meant to describe a millennial/generation…
The Road to Shedding My American Skin: An Introduction
The year is 2016. I am a college freshman, the month is September and, in a few weeks, the now Ex-President Donald Trump will be voted into the White House. At my east coast women’s liberal arts college, there is open support for Trump’s competition,…
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