MJ Fievre6 minShriveled: My Mother's BreastsI’ve been obsessed with breasts since I was ten. I was envious of Barbie’s breasts—the upturned, pointed cones would never...
MJ Fievre12 minSaving April: A Teacher Struggles to Connect with Her StudentI teach more than two hundred teens. My smallest class is thirty-three students. I simply don’t have the time to get to...
MJ Fievre5 minCycle: A Story about Bipolar DisorderI feel alive. Ideas are fast—like shooting stars I follow until brighter ones appear. I volunteer to...
MJ Fievre3 minIndigo Sky in Port-au-PrinceAs he disappears. Leaving me in the parking lot of the club, things biting my legs, crawling all over me.
MJ Fievre2 minCouscous: A father-daughter story about cooking and love Papa sleeps better during the day because he’s haunted. Night haunted. And when the spooky things come—memories of his childhood...
MJ Fievre5 minWhen I was Mexican: A Black Girl Explores Her AncestryNow I can justify the hours spent watching telenovelas that starred Kate del Castillo on Univision, perfecting my Spanish curses.
MJ Fievre9 minHair with Potential: A Black Girl Reflects on the Standards of BeautyPerms were the norm, because of a real obsession with hair texture, because of a fundamental rejection of the black self.
MJ Fievre5 minWatching the PhoenixOn January 12, 2010, when the earth broke up, shouting, crushing its fists on houses, lives and futures, what happened to the young man...?
MJ Fievre10 minLosing It: A Black Girl on Suicide Prevention"Why are you here?” Benjamin asks. “I’m on SP,” I say. Suicide Prevention. Maybe I do belong here, now that I even have the lingo down.