“I’ve always loved the map… It’s a thing with all of us Palestinians, really,” says artist Hamza Arman.

Covid-19 restrictions make grieving more difficult. Here are expert-backed tips for supporting people through the death of a loved one.

For millions of families across the United States, some variation of virtual school is officially in session. And while online learning presents a host of barriers for families everywhere, Black and Latinx students and students from low-income families—especially families with limited English proficiency—face more roadblocks to learning, driven in part by gaps in communication and access to devices and the internet.

It was only while fully submerged, my feet far from the ground, that my pain wholly subsided. Underwater, my body came alive.

In other collectivist societies, including my own Indo-Pak Muslim culture, it’s more uncommon to leave home if you’re single — and especially if you’re a single woman — than it is to stay, even if you’re financially stable and thriving. In fact, leaving home might even feel like a rejection to your parents, the way it still seems to make my own father feel.

What does it mean to cultivate and protect a home you only met in adulthood? To be intentional about creating a new life in a community while honoring the longtime residents and neighbors who might view me as an intruder, a gentrifier, that new millennial on the block?

It’s going to be OK.

Those were the last words 16-year-old Alex Blackwell mumbled to her boyfriend on video chat around 2 a.m. one Wednesday morning last September, moments before she fell into a listless trance.