Being an immigrant is not fun.

Mosaic Community Essays Being an immigrant is not fun. Moving from country to country is never an easy task as one uproots oneself and then replants oneself in a new society, many times with a new language and new surroundings and usually with no support system to talk of – like family and friends – […]

Palestinian Diaspora, Identity, and Hope

Professor Beshara Doumani gives new context to the relationship between Israel and Palestine and speaks about what it means to be Palestinian in a world that denies your very existence.

Growing Up as an American Jew

Mosaic Community Essays Growing up as an American Jew, Israel is absolutely a part of your consciousness. I was taught and the communities that I was a part of were taught that Israel is important for Jews around the world. That defending Israel as a nation state is important, that sort of, regardless of what […]

Therapy In Two Worlds

A conversation with therapist Sandra Victorino LMHC about her life and the complexities and benefits of treating mental health from a bicultural perspective.

God Talks To An Agnostic

A conversation with playwright and director Don Mays, who has created a space for a theatrical examination of Christianity in Black and brown communities with his latest audio play.

Indelibly Alien

Asian Americans are seen as perpetual “aliens” in this country. Professor Robert Lee explains how that leads to violence.

So I slip out the door. Unnoticed, unmissed.

Mosaic Community Essays My name is Naomi Kim, and this little piece is called, “So I slip out the door. Unnoticed, unmissed.” Why had I thought it wouldn’t matter, the fact that I had grown up in the near-absence of other Asian Americans? In my small town I was used to my otherness, but tonight, […]

Even as a child, I remember wanting to be white.

Mosaic Community Essays Even as a child, I remember wanting to be white. I didn’t have the vocabulary then but there was a sense of inferiority I associated with my Asianness. This hollowed-out feeling arose whenever my mother spoke in broken English to the store cashier, or when I ate from a Zojirushi lunch thermos […]

Dear Andrew, I know you crave assimilation.

Mosaic Community Essays Dear Andrew, I know you crave assimilation. It flies by you. It leaves a dark, muted bruise. Please look at it. Bruises may hurt, but they slowly fade away. This is how you learn. Please stop stretching your fingers out into the wind. You won’t be able to feel the radiant warmth […]

For a culture to be palatable, it may often exist as stereotypes.

Mosaic Community Essays For a culture to be palatable, it may often exist as stereotypes. For a conversation about culture to continue, it cannot remain that way. Recently, I stopped and pondered the image of my own ‘motherland’ I had constructed in America. I have built a cross-cultural identity backdropped against formidable city skylines and […]