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My POV: Living off the grid

By Kira Garlick May 13, 2016

If I could advise anyone to take some time away from the Internet, I’d say go for it. But I would also say it is nearly impossible. I challenged myself to go a whole week without using the Internet,...

From my POV: Growing up under a dictator

From my POV: Growing up under a dictator

By Mila Sviderskaya April 27, 2016

I If I tell people, “I grew up in a dictatorship,” they’re usually confused and don’t believe me at first. Well, I grew up in a country literally labeled “Europe’s Last Dictatorship.”...

From my POV: What it means to be transgender and what it means to speak up

By Donnie Denome February 4, 2016

I owe a lot to The Epitaph, but I think my largest debt is that I figured out that I was transgender from an article. Emi Kamezaki’s article, “The ‘T’ is not silent,” published in November...

Photo by Jeanna Totah

From my POV: Being a human Etch-A-Sketch

By Jeanna Totah February 3, 2016

For many children, going for a swim during a hot summer day is a normal activity. For someone who struggles with sensitive skin, like myself, the consequence of going into a chlorine-filled pool is...

From my P.O.V: Christmas at two houses

From my P.O.V: Christmas at two houses

By Raven Bautista January 3, 2016

For the last ten years, my sister and I spent the holidays either with my dad or my mom. Every Christmas is different, and we never know what to expect. Sometimes we will be out-of-state with my mom, or...

From my P.O.V: Living as a Muslim American during the peak of Islamophobia

From my P.O.V: Living as a Muslim American during the peak of Islamophobia

By Noor Baig December 11, 2015

News of another shooting is all over the Internet, and all I can think while scrolling through my Facebook feed is: “Please, please don’t let it be a Muslim.” It is. Or that’s what the headline...

Homestead Marching Band in Monument Square in Indianapolis. Photo courtesy of Jim Zumsteg.

From my P.O.V: Marching Band in Indiana

By Lindsay Goddard November 22, 2015

On the first day of school, my literature teacher asked us to anonymously write the thing about ourselves we are most proud of, and put it on the wall. One little pink Post-It hanging on the corner of...

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