Sarah Pine

Jun 11, 2024 | pshares.org | Sarah Pine

In their debut short story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, out today, Lydia Conklin examines what it’s like to inhabit a body and/or sexuality that is inherently uncomfortable—not because of one’s certainty about their identity but because of how others reject or suppress it. Conklin’s protagonists face the complicated, fraught choice to have top surgery, they transition while in relationships, they realize their queerness.

Jun 11, 2024 | pshares.org | Sarah Pine

“‘Have you ever made a scene…and then put yourself inside it?’” the narrator’s mother in Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, asks her son as she colors in a Thomas Kinkade house. She continues, “‘Have you ever watched yourself from behind, going further and deeper into that landscape, away from you?’” In response, the still young narrator thinks, “How could I tell you that what you were describing was writing?

Jun 11, 2024 | pshares.org | Sarah Pine

Growing up, I always felt weird and alone when it came to crushes. Much to my friends’ incredulity, I’d never had one—because what was the point? I saw crushes as a waste of emotional energy and therefore a waste of time. I found the whole spectacle—the code names, the combing over of exchanges, the love tokens—ridiculous.

Feb 27, 2024 | pittnews.com | Belle O'Hara |Sarah Pine |Donata Massimiani |Emma Hannan

Video Remoting Interpreting allows deaf individuals to communicate verbally using translating technology and is commonly used in health care settings. Although Jenna Barkey said she’s preferred an in-person interpreter at appointments ever since a doctor gave her son a vaccine that she and her husband, who’s also deaf, didn’t want him to get. “My son was about six months old.

Feb 27, 2024 | pittnews.com | Belle O'Hara |Sarah Pine |Donata Massimiani |Emma Hannan

Hello Compilers, I have two main personality traits. The first one is that I love making progress. I love seeing things go through different phases and watching something be made from nothing. I love visualizing that progress — whether it is checking off my to-do list or watching a progress bar slowly inch toward 100%. The second one is that I love to read. I have had a bookshelf for as long as I can remember. What was first filled with “Junie B.