Reading Time: 5 minutes“These are the things I hold close when I remember that while growing up I contended with some things that no ten-year-old should.”
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom my personal experience as a Chinese-Canadian, I find that mental illness and mental health are issues rarely (if ever) discussed in Chinese and East Asian households. It continues to be considered a non-serious issue and taboo subject, resulting in its highly stigmatized state.
Reading Time: 5 minutesFulcrum Contributors share their experiences of struggles that come with and without seeing family over the holiday season.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo these long-time best friends, they were already a family to begin with—winning this recent court case was just a simple formality.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwins Myriam and Kelsie English do everything together. Both are third-year social sciences students who plan on becoming elementary school teachers, and both play on the Gee-Gees women’s volleyball team.
Reading Time: 10 minutes“Ideally, I’d have a PhD, I’d be a professor, my research would be fantastic, it wouldn’t suffer; but I’d also be able to have a family. I’d be married, I’d have children, and somehow my career wouldn’t have to take a hit because I took time off to have a kid—but my family also wouldn’t suffer after I go back to work after giving birth,” she said. “I wonder if it’s really possible to have all of those things.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy such a massive shift? It’s hard to say for certain. I can, however, speak for my own experience.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents and recent grads may not have the answers to their family members’ questions, but they do know one thing for sure: The definition of the word “family” is different for everyone.
