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May 1, 20208 min read
To Fight with Every Step
I grew up in the late ’90s with the life that most people would dream about as a kid. My house was a few blocks from the best beaches...
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Apr 29, 20207 min read
Under the Dazzling Stage Lights
Before I begin, let me tell you a few things about me... I’m a gender queer actor who loves to sing, dance, and shatter stereotypes.
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Apr 20, 20208 min read
While the Music Continues
Well, let me start my story with a parable:
“There once was a very small girl whose mother asked her to fill up a barren valley with water..
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Mar 25, 20208 min read
Even When the Waves Crash, the Mountain Stands
When looking back at those days, I marvel at how far I have come. Maybe it was luck. Maybe it was desperation. Maybe I will never find out..
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Mar 20, 20207 min read
Pain and Humor
In the year of my birth, 1952, our desolate Texas prairie lured only the wildcatter oil tycoons from the east coast and the hardworking...
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Mar 6, 20208 min read
To Explain the Universe
If uninterrupted, I could talk to you about optics (which is the study of light and its properties) for the rest of my life...
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Feb 28, 20208 min read
Everybody’s Got a Song
I think I realized early on that I could either be really bitter about it, or I could gain a lot of really great life skills...
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Feb 26, 20207 min read
A New Way to Lead
I could have easily had a very normal life, had a 9-to-5 job, live paycheck-to-paycheck, and dream of big things without acting...
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Feb 24, 20208 min read
The Color Reel
I was the only girl in my family and had three older brothers. My mom was a teacher and my dad worked in communications...
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Feb 20, 20209 min read
In the Blink of a Bloodshot Eye
Addiction isn’t picky. Trust me. You can come from family dinners and a good education and still fall into dependence. I sure as hell did...
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Feb 12, 20207 min read
I Am More Than a Resumé
I grew up in Pune, India, in a middle-class family. My parents had corporate jobs and worked from early morning to late evening to provide..
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Feb 7, 20208 min read
To Learn of Freedom
The country of my mother tongue, my family, a great deal of my childhood, and my culture actually isn’t where I was born...
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Feb 5, 20207 min read
Grits and Eggs
Back then, there were no doctors and nurses, at least, not the way we think of them today. Only midwives delivered babies...
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Jan 31, 20209 min read
Life Without Drugs
More to get him to shut up than anything else, I walked to the sliding glass doors.
I’ll be damned. Two dudes were climbing the fence...
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Jan 29, 202010 min read
Who Are the Good Guys?
Miami was sleepy in the ‘50s—nothing like the bustling buildings and energy it has now. When my family moved across town...
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Jan 27, 20208 min read
No, Depression Can’t Have Me
Growing up in a very strict Christian family, I was expected to settle down and start a family. As I waited for Mr. Right...
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Jan 24, 20208 min read
No Longer a Victim
People used to look at me and see nothing more than an addict who couldn’t keep a needle out of her arm long enough to...
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Jan 17, 20209 min read
It’s the Baby
Even now I’m still stunned when I think of the way it all went so fantastically to hell in front of my eyes...
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Jan 9, 20208 min read
An Invisible War
You never think it’s going to be you until it is. And then it is...
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Dec 13, 20196 min read
To Return to Myself
But what I wish I didn’t remember— what I wish I forgot so completely—was my father’s drinking. My father’s hands as they beat me...
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