personal growth
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Rise Against is a punk rock band from Chicago – a point that they gladly recall at their show in Asbury Park back in July 2021. The lead vocalist Tim McIlrath occasionally stopped to speak to the crowd about all the injustices in the world. I, one of very few Black fans, gesture to the
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Today is the first anniversary of the Capitol riot. It’s also the one year anniversary of when I could have lost the person that means the most to me in this world. My life was completely different a year ago. I had been engaged for almost two months and I was recovering from an emergency
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My greatest mistake in the world was not believing in myself. I put far too much trust in a system built to destroy me. Society told me to bury my mistakes but I never realized it was literal. I was the mistake that society deemed unworthy so I did what I was told. My mistakes
Trapped In The Margins 