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Latest articles by Vox First Person

What does it mean to be Asian American?
Culture

The label encompasses an entire continent of different cultural roots. Does it speak to a shared experience?

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What would you tell your pre-pandemic self?
One Year Later

14 people look back and offer advice to their past selves on what’s to come.

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The loneliness of being mixed race in America
Culture

“I had to figure out the language to describe myself”: 6 mixed-race people on shifting how they identify.

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I was sent to be treated for Covid-19 at the Javits Center. Here’s what it’s like.
Covid-19

I’m not sure anyone is particularly enthused by the idea of being sent to a field hospital. But once there, my apprehension eased quickly.

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They survived Columbine. Then came Sandy Hook. And Parkland.
Gun Violence

Six Columbine survivors describe reliving the trauma of school shootings, over and over again.

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Hindsight 2070: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years
archives

We asked thinkers, writers, and academics to predict society’s moral evolution on eating meat, kids playing football, 401(k)s, and more.

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Who I was when it happened and who I am now
#MeToo

11 women on the trauma from their youth that they’ll always hold on to.

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Criminal Justice
“I hope you know that it’s not that we didn’t try”: a Columbine and Parkland survivor talk“I hope you know that it’s not that we didn’t try”: a Columbine and Parkland survivor talk
Criminal Justice

A conversation between survivors of two school shootings, a generation apart, ahead of the March for Our Lives.

By Vox First Person
Politics
“My heart literally hurts”: Muslims, women, and people of color on Donald Trump’s victory“My heart literally hurts”: Muslims, women, and people of color on Donald Trump’s victory
Politics

What’s it like to watch a man who insulted your culture get elected president of the United States? This is what it’s like.

By Vox First Person
Life after the Olympics
Features

“An entire way of life was gone — all at once”: 8 athletes on what happens when you come home from the games.

By Vox First Person