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The World Was Calling | Tufts Magazine

The World Was Calling | Tufts Magazine

tuftsmagazine.com — The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King was an unthinkable tragedy that prompted a critical national discussion about race, privilege, and access. Here at Tufts, that resulted in an increase in African-American enrollment, thanks to scholarships, as well as recruitment efforts led largely by students.
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Write What You Know

Write What You Know

http://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/useless-artist-advice/ —
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What's a Writer For: Grace Talusan | GrubStreet

What's a Writer For: Grace Talusan | GrubStreet

grubstreet.org — In the lead up to this year's Muse conference, we asked authors, agents, and editors presenting at the conference: What is a writer for? This installmen...
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Grace Talusan's 6 New Books From Diverse Voices

Grace Talusan's 6 New Books From Diverse Voices

velamag.com — Though I read voraciously as a child, I rarely saw myself reflected in the books I read-except for the Asian caricatures who appeared briefly in the pages of Steinbeck or Louisa May Alcott. Although I admired Karana in Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, I wanted to be the girls in books by Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume and Cynthia Voigt.
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Knee Walk - Image Journal

Knee Walk - Image Journal

imagejournal.org — By the time we got to the Sorrowful Mysteries, I had fallen asleep, lulled by the warm bus and the whispers of prayer. Our first stop on the pilgrimage was the Church of St. Anthony of Padua to see the Bleeding Host.
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How to Cross the Street in Manila

How to Cross the Street in Manila

http://now.tufts.edu/ — Returning to the Philippines, the country of my birth, I finally looked like everyone else—which was not the same as fitting in
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How to Make Yogurt in Manila - The Butter

How to Make Yogurt in Manila - The Butter

the-toast.net — I am living in the Philippines on a Fulbright fellowship for half a year, so the only way I can see my loved ones back home in the U.S. is through videochat. The twelve-hour time difference and the spotty online connection in my Manila condo means that when we do appear on each other's laptops, the moment is precious. I hadn't realized, until my niece pointed it out, that my main topic of conversation with her is yogurt. Specifically, my obsession with inoculating warm milk with culture and fermenting it into yogurt.
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My Father's Noose

My Father's Noose

Brevity — When my father was a boy, his mother hung him. Enter Tondo, a Manila slum, and stand in the kitchen of his childhood home. Look up. The crusty knot is still there, tied around the light fixture. I imagine my father, Totoy, at ten. He hasn't graduated yet to long pants and shoes; his shorts and T-shirt are faded and soft from the wear of three older brothers. Totoy has done something to make his mother angrier than she's ever been. And now, Totoy balances on a stack of vegetable crates, his neck connected to the ceiling.
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In Search of Tito Freddie: A Personal Chronicle

In Search of Tito Freddie: A Personal Chronicle

Esquire Philippines — An essay about my search for my pen pal from childhood, the writer Alfrredo Navarro Salanga
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"Little Bud" and "Of Geese and Men"

"Little Bud" and "Of Geese and Men"

Harvard Bookstore anthology — Two short essays I wrote while living in the Philippines
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Orion Magazine | Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, The Philippines

Orion Magazine | Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, The Philippines

orionmagazine.org —
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Interview: Grace Talusan Interviews Contributor Joanne Diaz

Interview: Grace Talusan Interviews Contributor Joanne Diaz

memoriousmag.wordpress.com —
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"Creating an Online Reader's Guide to Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel" by Grace Talusan

"Creating an Online Reader's Guide to Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel" by Grace Talusan

sjsu.edu — Talusan, Grace (2014) "Teaching with Collaborative Writing Projects: Creating an Online Reader's Guide to Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel," Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 5, Article 8. Available at: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol5/iss/8
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Genius Loci: Citizen of the Stacks

Genius Loci: Citizen of the Stacks

architects.org — My library card was a house key to my true home.
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Why I Chose To Have a Preventative Double Mastectomy

Why I Chose To Have a Preventative Double Mastectomy

Boston Magazine — Angelina Jolie's confession opened the doors for women-like me-to come forward and talk about the realities of breast cancer. Like Angelina Jolie, I carry the BRCA1 gene mutation and several years ago at age 34, opted to have both breasts removed even though I didn't have a cancer diagnosis.
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Angelina Jolie (and I) Will Have Another Preventative Surgery

Angelina Jolie (and I) Will Have Another Preventative Surgery

Boston Magazine — Angelina Jolie's announcement of her prophylactic mastectomy last month gave me the courage to write about my experience as a carrier of the BRCA1 mutation and my mastectomy to prevent cancer. Readers used words such as "brave," "courageous," and "inspiring" to describe my confession. I appreciate those comments, and I do agree that willingly removing my cancer-free breasts in my early thirties took strength. . .But the truth is, I’ve been feeling like an imposter.
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The Start

The Start

Post Road — A third person essay about an autopsy assistant
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Preserving Boston's Historical Sites Could Support the City's Economy

Preserving Boston's Historical Sites Could Support the City's Economy

Boston Magazine — I'm in Paul Revere's upstairs chamber, contemplating his bed. He left it one morning in April 1775, and that night took his famous ride. On this tour of the Paul Revere House, in the North End, I also learn that he was married twice, and had eight children with each wife. It's an intimate space to be in, so I'm surprised to see a small table at the foot of the bed, set for company. The guide, standing quietly by the wall, explains that it was common during Revere's time to entertain guests in your bedroom.
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The DREAM Act: The Thing Is, I'm Undocumented

The DREAM Act: The Thing Is, I'm Undocumented

Boston Magazine — That’s when it hit me: I was an illegal alien. My younger siblings, who had been born here, had a right to be in the country, but I didn’t. The future suddenly went dark. I could be deported to the Philippines, a location as unknown to me as Mars. I couldn’t fathom starting over in a foreign nation, even though that’s exactly what my parents had done by coming to America. I never thought about how meaningful U.S. citizenship was until I suddenly was told I didn’t have it.
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Tufts Magazine / summer 2012

Tufts Magazine / summer 2012

www.tufts.edu — If, God forbid, you ever need a heart transplant, Los Angeles is the place to be.
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Did You Hear The One About MIT's Little Nuclear Reactor?

Did You Hear The One About MIT's Little Nuclear Reactor?

Boston Magazine — "YOU MIGHT HAVE JUST lucked out," David Moncton, director of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, tells me. "You might get lucky." We are sitting across a conference table in the brick building adjacent to the "blue mushroom," the cute, shiny-happy name scientists use for MIT's nuclear reactor in Cambridge. The reactor lies deep inside the center of a huge round building that's painted swimming-pool blue. Looking a bit like a water tower, it's set back from Mass. Ave. between the Paradise and the Metropolitan, a gay club and storage facility, respectively. "Get lucky?" I ask. Today, the reactor has been shut down for fuel management.
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A decade after he proposed, we're finally tying the knot

A decade after he proposed, we're finally tying the knot

Boston Globe — In a picture window framing snow falling onto Faneuil Hall, my boyfriend, Alonso, presented me with a sapphire and diamond ring. I wasn't surprised; by then, we'd been together five years. We planned our wedding, first debating the merits of nuptials in Louisville, Kentucky, where he's from, or Boston, where I'm from. We would include Filipino marriage customs, such as enclosing the couple in a veil and cord, and from his African-American ancestors, jumping the broom. (Although not at the same time. We might fall). My godson, Andrew, would be our ring bearer.
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The Loneliest Thing On Earth - The Rumpus.net

The Loneliest Thing On Earth - The Rumpus.net

therumpus.net — If you're only reading this review to find out whether Miguel Syjuco's novel is worth your time, here's the short answer: Yes. If you enjoy a good murder mystery, or a multigenerational family saga, or a love story, or a hero's journey in search of something lost, or an inside look at how the elite of a former U.S.
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The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan - The Rumpus.net

The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan - The Rumpus.net

therumpus.net — The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan
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