Refusing the Cure

Refusing the Cure

Inner conflict is often cast as a private struggle, a necessary part of psychological growth, and the engine of self-understanding. But when societies decide that these internal tensions must be managed for the greater good, something fundamental shifts. The 20th...
Unlearning the Puppet Show

Unlearning the Puppet Show

We rent our mouths like billboards and call it a personality. The slogans change, the lease remains, and the quiet terrain beneath never gets a chance to grow its own language. If the voice inside you sounds like a podcast host you’ve never met, that is not a...
Root the Cause

Root the Cause

Borders are inventions that became cages, and the harms that spill from them, wars, flight, and the theater of “illegal immigration” are the predictable churn of lines we first imagined, then enforced with walls, checkpoints, and stories about who belongs and who does...
The Narrow Doorway

The Narrow Doorway

Some of us weren’t born into spacious skies; we were born into rooms with no windows, taught to breathe stale air and call it normal, until one day a hairline crack in the wall became an earthquake and everything we’d braced with smiles finally fell through the floor....