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It Is So Hard to Be Trans

It Is So Hard to Be Trans

Everywhere I turn, trans rights are being restricted. I see further pushes against lifesaving care for me and thousands of others. I see constant demonization and ridicule. I see authors whom I admired and grew up on claiming that I am a predator, comparing me to Death Eaters to be locked up. To J.K. Rowling,…

What It’s Like to Grow Up With A.I.: The Winners of Our Multimedia Challenge

Via essays, poems, videos, artwork and graphics, 35 students across the globe reflect on how this technology is affecting teenagers.
After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared

After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared

This essay, by Emerson Riter, age 15, from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 16,664 entries.We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up over the next week, and you can find…
Anti Asian Hate Books

Anti Asian Hate Books

After a year with a marked increase in discrimination and harassment aimed at Asian-Americans across the country, the past few months have been particularly shocking, in both the frequency and violence of attacks. A powerful way to fight racism is education. Conversations about prejudice with your children starting at a young age go a long…