Identity & Culture
The Faces of Belonging
How memory, migration, and meaning shape who we are—and the cultures we create together.
Adopt Dog near Me: Inspiring Shifts in How We Create Kinship and Community
When people type Adopt Dog near Me into a search bar, they’re rarely thinking in epidemiology, yet that viral query…
Liturgies of the Self: How Wellness Routines Mirror Ancient Worship
At dawn, some rise not to bells but to phone alarms, their first action not prayer but hydration. A glass…
The Ritual of Refresh: How Online Habits Become Devotions
At dawn, before coffee or prayer, millions reach for the glow of their phones. A thumb swipes down, the screen…
Hashtag Ancestry: When Genealogy Goes Viral
In living rooms and on timelines, family trees are no longer confined to dusty albums or oral traditions whispered at…
Digital Relics: When Code Becomes Sacred Artifact
In medieval cathedrals, pilgrims would travel for weeks to glimpse a bone fragment, a torn garment, or a vial of…
Borderless Burial: How Diasporas Redefine Death Rites Online
On a quiet evening in Dakar, a family gathers around a laptop, their faces lit not by candlelight but by…
The Bus Lane to Freedom: Why Transit Equity Is Civil Rights in Motion
In the United States, buses have long been more than vehicles. They have been battlegrounds for justice, from Rosa Parks’…
Sacred Networks: How Connectivity Becomes a Substitute for Communion
When churches closed their doors during the pandemic, congregations migrated online. Zoom prayer circles, livestreamed sermons, and chatroom meditations became…
Avatars with Ancestors: When Digital Selves Carry Generational Memory
In a crowded gaming café in Dakar, a teenager customizes her online avatar with the patterned cloth her grandmother once…
Virtual Villages: How Online Gaming Worlds Become Cultural Homelands
In a Lagos café, a teenager dons a headset and enters a fantasy world where her guildmates speak three different…
Diaspora Streaming: How Netflix Becomes a Homeland
On a Friday night in Paris, a Senegalese family gathers around their television to watch a Nollywood drama. In Toronto,…
Diasporic Futures: How Migrant Communities Reimagine Belonging
On a Sunday in Queens, a Senegalese grandmother ladles thieboudienne onto plates for a dozen relatives and neighbors. Across the…