Angelica Alzona

Dec 31, 2024 | theguardian.com | Angelica Alzona |Rita Liu |Marcus Peabody

From online privacy to sex parties and an election illustrated entirely with cut paper, this is how artists illustrated the year’s biggest stories for Guardian US

Apr 3, 2023 | huffpost.com | Caroline Bologna |Angelica Alzona

When thinking of grief, it’s common to picture people crying and feeling sadness or despair. But emotions aren’t the full extent of how grief manifests. For many, there are physical, bodily symptoms as well. “The body and mind work together, so it is not unusual for grief to be experienced physically,” said Nicole Raines, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Los Angeles.

Jan 26, 2023 | huffpost.com | Sierra Lyons |Angelica Alzona

Until she was 21, Ariana Steen cried herself to sleep every night, terrorized by the thought of her mom being killed in prison. It’s a fear that permeated her psyche throughout her young adulthood; her mother was incarcerated when Steen was just 13. Steen, now a 24-year-old living in Seattle, was primarily raised by her father and grandmother in Florida even before the arrest, in part because of her mother’s persisting mental health struggles.