On Coming of Age as a Queer Muslim Immigrant & Discovering Oneself Through Literature

Contributed by Lamya H, author of Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir. Using some of the most famous stories in the Quran to make sense of her struggles and triumphs as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant, Lamya H tells her story, from childhood in the Middle East to her arrival in the United States for college

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How Students at Oldenburg Academy Explored Reconciliation Through Convicted

We are very pleased to share that Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg, Indiana, selected Convicted: An Innocent Man, the Cop Who Framed Him, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship by Jameel Zookie McGee and Andrew Collins with Mark Tabb for the student body to read over the summer. English Teacher

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Esau McCaulley’s How Far to the Promised Land

After his father’s death, Esau McCaulley went back through his family history, seeking to understand the community that shaped him: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. With profound honesty

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2023-24

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 351 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2023-24. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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