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By Trisha Hein  it would be my favorite pair of earrings: the dangling crystal skulls I bought as a birthday present, from me to me, at a kitsch-chic little boutique in Mexico City.
Yes, I realize it’s cliché to use literal skulls as a talisman, almost like I’m wafting around with the petrified heads of my enemies adorning my face as a warning to those who might wish to cross me. But really, they mean so much more to me than that. I was brought up in an extremely religious household. The idea of me wearing skulls of any kind – even as a grown woman – would horrify my mother to this day. I was never allowed any such misadventure as a child, even as a joke. But I am no longer a child.
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Personal Essay: The Lost Languages and the International Mother Language Day by Mehreen Ahmed3/2/2022 By Mehreen Ahmed  21st February is the International Mother Language Day—exemplary, and the most celebrated day world-wide for language. However, even as we speak, we lose a language. Even as we celebrate we lose a language. Research shows, we lose a language around the world, nearly every fourteen days. This paradox deems it necessary to save this endangered resource from getting extinct—particularly, indigenous languages are more at risk.
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