Shriveled: My Mother's Breasts
MJ Fievre
  • 6 min

Shriveled: My Mother's Breasts

I’ve been obsessed with breasts since I was ten. I was envious of Barbie’s breasts—the upturned, pointed cones would never...
Saving April: A Teacher Struggles to Connect with Her Student
MJ Fievre
  • 12 min

Saving April: A Teacher Struggles to Connect with Her Student

I teach more than two hundred teens. My smallest class is thirty-three students. I simply don’t have the time to get to...
Cycle: A Story about Bipolar Disorder
MJ Fievre
  • 5 min

Cycle: A Story about Bipolar Disorder

I feel alive. Ideas are fast—like shooting stars I follow until brighter ones appear. I volunteer to...
Indigo Sky in Port-au-Prince
MJ Fievre
  • 3 min

Indigo Sky in Port-au-Prince

As he disappears. Leaving me in the parking lot of the club, things biting my legs, crawling all over me.
Couscous: A father-daughter story about cooking and love
MJ Fievre
  • 2 min

Couscous: 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...
When I was Mexican: A Black Girl Explores Her Ancestry
MJ Fievre
  • 5 min

When I was Mexican: A Black Girl Explores Her Ancestry

Now I can justify the hours spent watching telenovelas that starred Kate del Castillo on Univision, perfecting my Spanish curses.
Hair with Potential: A Black Girl Reflects on the Standards of Beauty
MJ Fievre
  • 9 min

Hair with Potential: A Black Girl Reflects on the Standards of Beauty

Perms were the norm, because of a real obsession with hair texture, because of a fundamental rejection of the black self.
Watching the Phoenix
MJ Fievre
  • 5 min

Watching the Phoenix

On January 12, 2010, when the earth broke up, shouting, crushing its fists on houses, lives and futures, what happened to the young man...?
Losing It: A Black Girl on Suicide Prevention
MJ Fievre
  • 10 min

Losing 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.
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