Bringing Home the Wrong Race

05/06/2011

Seeking familial acceptance in an interracial relationship, and finding boundaries to be prevalent.

What Is Carved in Stone

29/05/2011

A season among the petroglyphs makes a young man reconsider all those love-related text messages.

Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich

08/05/2011

AT 8 in the morning, I expected some old woman to be working behind the counter of the pharmacy -- the kind of person who usually gets up at 6 a.m. anyway. Instead, there was a young guy in tight jeans and one of those faux-ethnic kaffiyeh scarves. I thou

Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich

01/05/2011

To my Indonesian immigrant parents, sex education involved instilling in me a deep fear of rape, jail, pregnancy, God and my mother.

Hearts, and Lives, Out of Step

17/04/2011

Where was the “nice boy” who would help me cross over into adulthood, into the world of rings and babies?