The Empathy Reflex: What Being Unemployed Taught Me About Shame by Gabrielle Kassel

I graduated a prestigious women’s college in Northampton in May before moving to New York, New York for six weeks to complete a publishing program at NYU. When I the program ended mid-July I [...]

31 bodies take the pitch. 15 dressed in red and black. 15 dressed in an alternate color. The ref calls the captains from each team forward. A coin toss takes place and the ball is kicked. The 80 [...]

It’s a simple enough question: “are you an introvert of an extrovert?”. It’s a question that litters my tinder conversations, text-chats, and dinner-time discussions, and so I wasn’t surprised [...]

I take the train from New Haven to Grande Central Station, for what I hope will be the last time I have to make the four-hour commute for a New York City interview. I plug my earphones against my [...]

I began a fitness Instagram with the opening of the 2016 New Year. Two to three times I each day I photos in varying yellow lights flexing when the locker-room empties, I show off my [...]

If you really – I mean really! – want a peaceful, loving, joyful and happy relationship as a couple, if you want to learn how to stop arguing for good, then the first step is to admit this desire [...]

Balance-my favorite word. A wish I hear others echo, a desire we can realize. Come look and step outside the box with me. I’ve seen its success, over and over again. #balance Finding [...]

Women who have had some serious trauma in their past come to me tired of feeling like the victim.  They don’t know whether to forgive, how to move forward, which way to begin again. Below [...]

I. Neon signs pass as moonlight here, a promise: the world is still beautiful. II. I remember the night I tried to replace my ribcage with yours, trying to find beautiful in my time- bomb body. [...]

Identities take up space: headspace, emotional space, social space, and even physical space. Assigned female at birth, I quickly realized that I was “supposed to” take up less space than my [...]