MJ Fievre
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...?
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.