Taking Up Space: Being Black and First-Gen at a PWI

by Toni Momodu, Susquehanna University, 2025

It’s Black History Month, and while the campus flyers are out and the panel invites are rolling in, the truth of the matter is this: I carry this identity every single day, not just in February. Being Black, first-gen, genderqueer (and so many more intersecting...

Midterms and Fall Break

by Toni Momodu, Susquehanna University, 2025

It’s November, and I’m tired in that way that doesn’t always show up on your face, but sits in your chest. The kind of tiredness where your brain is full but foggy. Where you’re behind on everything and somehow still doing too much.  Midterms came and went, and...