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Life Stories (page 13)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

Cleaning supplies and medical face masks (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"We're in survival mode"

Nina Gonzalez, Ela Banerjee
Medical face mask surrounded by hospital bills (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"How are we going to pay these bills?"

Soledad Castillo, Ela Banerjee
A protester holds up their homemade sign that says, "We Will NEVER Stop Fighting for BLACK Women" with a picture of the black power fist on the sign during a protest at Trump Tower. This was part of the Black Womxn's Empowerment March that started at Trump Tower and marched to Gracie Mansion. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

I'm a Black woman, not a woman of color

Takirra Winfield Dixon
The Last Story Of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (Photo illustration by Salon/ Portrait and cover provided courtesy of publicist)

I felt responsible for my mother's life

Nancy Jooyoun Kim
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives his a press briefing about the coronavirus crisis on April 17, 2020 in Albany, New York | Photo of writer as a child with her father (Photo illustration by Salon/family photo courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Watching Cuomo, grieving my father

Gina Gionfriddo
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

COVID-19's threat to aging prisoners

Todd Oppenheim
A smart phone with a camera mounted on a tripod, with a medical face mask hanging off of it. (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

Sex work without contact in the pandemic

Hunter R., Andrea Quijada
Illustration (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Reading his way through the pandemic

Yusufu Mosley, Audrey Petty
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Classroom whiteboard with a quote from Audre Lorde written on it (Getty Images/Salon)

The awakening of the American white mind

Randall Horton
A pair of maracas and a medical face mask, placed on a window sill (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"I feel we have no voice"

Anastasia Bravo, Dao X. Tran
Several Philadelphia police officers stroll through the West Philadelphia neighborhood destroyed by the bombing of the MOVE headquarters. The police and radical African American organization MOVE faced off, until the police bombed the group's house. (Getty Images)

Apologies for MOVE bombing aren't enough

Mike Africa Jr.
Kanye West attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Kanye West, bipolar disorder and me

Darryl Robertson
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An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

I'm OK with my kids "falling behind"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rules For Being Dead by Kim Powers (Blair Publishing/George Paul/Salon)

Solving the mystery of my mother's death

Kim Powers
A sign is seen on a barrier at an entrance to the so-called "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The zone includes the blocks surrounding the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct, which was the site of violent clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters, who have continued to demonstrate in the wake of George Floyd's death. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

The collapse of Seattle's CHOP/CHAZ

Sean Edwards, Gabe Fuente
House plants, with a medical mask hanging off the stem (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

After prison, graduating into a pandemic

Hanima Eugene, Ela Banerjee, Cliff Mayotte
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Cocktails at the bar (Getty Images)

I’m not going back to work as a server

Nikki Ervice
A diploma scroll and graduation cap with a medical mask hooked around the top button (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

A refugee's graduation into uncertainty

Claudine Katete, Katrina Powell
Police officers breaking down doors (Getty Images)

When the cops break down your door

D. Watkins
Fruit basketed in a medical mask on the ground by the border wall (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Sick with COVID-19 in ICE detention

Raul Luna Gonzalez, Gabriel Thompson
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Rear view of woman in front of house (Getty Images)

Alzheimer's in the era of COVID-19

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A face mask chessboard, and prison bars (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

How COVID-19 affects the incarcerated

Shearod McFarland, Mateo Hoke
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What "from the hood to the holler" means

Minda Honey
Sesame Street (Warner Media/CNN)

Kids need to keep learning about racism

Danni Quintos
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