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Anya Sesay

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Spring Break
Inquiry

Reminder: Your Spring Break Is in Someone Else's Home

When we exoticize a place, we treat it differently than we would treat our own homes. We abide by different rules — if any at all — than we would abide by at home. And, oddly, we often grant ourselves an uncanny kind of newfound freedom.

Bad Bunny Design
Inquiry

Bad Bunny’s Album is Talking About Us, Whether You Like It or Not

Bad Bunny’s album is not just about large-scale contributors to cultural degradation in Puerto Rico. It is also about how we, as individuals, conceptualize the Caribbean.

Cambridge City Hall in the Summer
Cambridge

Indigenous Translations Will Be Added to Street Signs Around Cambridge

Cambridge will install new street signs with road names translated into the Massachusett language in a multi-year initiative to recognize the city’s historical ties to its Indigenous residents.

Anya Introspection
Introspection

When We Let Grief Linger

There is something perpetual about Black death, for me. Something claustrophobic and inescapable and choking, something unbreathable and violent and bleak. That even if all the world were to cry, even if the earth’s screams could exorcize the misery of my innocence lost so young and the heartache that comes with every Black life taken, it wouldn’t be enough.

Mount Auburn Cemetery
Introspection

Sick, in a Grieving Way

That was when I turned to Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery Report. Reading it made me feel like I was having a spiritual heart attack.

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