The Songs I Loved: Sarah McLachlan’s “Adia”
in 1998, my relationship with my younger brother nicholas was strained. we were so young (me 21 and he 18…
KIYOSHI KUROMIYA
in the late 1980’s, the only approved hiv treatment medication available was AZT. when it hit the market in 1987,…
Gabriel | New York, NY
I have not taken the subway since the lockdown a few weeks ago and my bike has been my only…
The Songs I Loved: Mariah Carey’s “Vision of Love”
It took so long Still I believed Somehow the one that I needed Would find me eventually 1990, as with…
NAYOBE
if you ask the causal freestyle music listener who the “queen of freestyle” is, you may get a few different answers.…
Horacio x Eddie | Philadelphia, PA
Horacio: Long story short, the quarantine made our March 21st date impossible so the day that the stay at home…
The Songs I Loved: Concrete Blonde’s “Joey”
my life is a perpetual music soundtrack. i remember all of the moments – no matter how trivial or traumatic…
MELVIN LINDSEY
growing up in the 1990’s, there were ballads and then there were slow jams. that distinction mattered in the early…
José Javier | Wilton Manor, FL
i came out to my mother when my grandmother died in 2006. and back then I had a cousin that…
I Wanna Go Out Dancing: Celebrating Birthdays During A Pandemic
Growing up, I’ve always considered music to be a huge part of my life. I used to sometimes joke about…
SELENA
My love for Selena would begin as a young brown boy growing up in Tucson, Arizona. As a first generation…
Chris & Andrew | Bronx, NY
chris: my brother really continues to teach me how to be unapologetically me. he is so unapologetically him ALL the…