At 7 years old I had my heart set on becoming a hairdresser. Like many 7-year-old girls, I had experimented on the unfortunate plastic heads of Barbie dolls, streaking their platinum blond locks with food coloring and hacking off clumps with safety scissors. I thought myself quite the stylist. Looking back, I should have taken […]
I walk into the gym; all eyes turn to me. I am the only white person in the inner city community center. I feel like an outcast. The man at the door takes my bag as I walk through the metal detector. He gives me a hand shake, like those I had only seen in […]
It is almost midnight. My feet are sore, my hands are calloused, my head is pounding and the smell of The Red Parrot – food and cigarette smoke – is seeping from my body. I have just worked for 12 hours and feel 100 years old, but it is worth it. At nine years old […]
I have had the great and unlikely honor of growing up the only girl in a family offive children. Being the only girl has many good points. Clothes,toys, games, sports equipment and anything else I could possibly want piled up inmy house Christmas after Christmas and birthday after birthday. I whined andcried until I got […]
It was like the gun had grease on it. Attentive any control, my body was compelled to do it and I went ahead and shot. ” Vance survived until November 1988 when he slipped into a coma and died a few days later. His parents took the rock band Judas Priest to court where the […]
Childhood Ignorance and the Mother of Stone In Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” there is a poignant line that resonates with the reality of the world we live in: “There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.” These […]
The demographic of society has changed dramatically over the last 20 years and with that law enforcement has been changing, but have they been changing enough? Different law enforcement agencies have their own ways of implementing diversity in their practices and procedures, some of them are better than others, but with issues that happen today […]
A five-year-old girl stands alone in a room. There’s silence; no one is watching her but me. She climbs atop a bar stool that towers over her head. There’s no one to halt her curiosity or tell her to get down. She knows better, but she’s reckless. With her arms stiff at her sides, she […]
Mini-pupillage 200 From August 2017 to July 2018 I have had the privilege of working as a mini-pupil at the law chamber of Barrister Nazmul Karim, a renowned senior advocate of The Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In the beginning, I was tasked to observe the activities of the chamber and take notes of my observations […]
The premise of this work Is that rock ‘n’ roll matters, and that It means what it says. It seems that rock ‘n’ roll music has seldom been given its due as an art form, that It Is somehow relegated to a category of less “mature” or “serious” artistic pursuits by the media and the […]