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Ras Malai

My favorite dessert is ras malai. For those of you who haven’t had it, it’s spongey little cakes of Indian dessert cheese that are served in a bowl of saffron and pistachio-flavored milk cream. They’re light on your tongue and dissolve almost instantly, more air than anything else.  The last time my family went to …

Two chicken sandwiches

You always say, “I’m sad,” and I know you are, with good reason. You were diagnosed with high-functioning autism late, after fifteen years of everyone wondering why you talked a little too slow, processed things a little too late. You still haven’t accepted your diagnosis, even though you’re twenty years old now. You don’t want …

One piece of cloth

It’s Halloween, 2019, and Asiya Huda Ahmed is not going to her friend’s party in costume – though to the world, it certainly does not look that way. She looks nothing like herself. She’s wearing something different, something that makes her look… well, she’s not sure what it makes her look like yet. She still …

Dear Shurah

Dear Shurah, I’ve run for shurah every single year of undergrad. I served three years on the board – one as Faith Chair, two as Outreach. Now I’m watching elections roll around one more time, and it’s just starting to hit me that I’m not running again.  I’m not going to block out my Tuesday …

The Democratic Party isn’t as pro-minority as they claim, and their treatment of Ilhan Omar shows it

Congratulations, Democratic party. You’ve invented a new kind of stupid. The kind of stupid where you take your loyal, excited, diverse demographic and sideline them. The kind of stupid where you take one of your freshman Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar, and take turns slamming her in a way that reeks of hypocrisy. But she’s more than …