Author: Kristen Leer

Milwaukee is the home to many generations of immigrant families. Over decades, these families have invested many sizable contributions to the rich characteristics that make Milwaukee what it is today. There are also many scars and wounds through these families that have yet to be explored and reflected upon within an open safe space. Often the inability stems from the complicated relationship with the place they are to call their new “home.” This love-hate relationship with Milwaukee is the foundation of Zhanna Slor’s April 2021 debut novel At the End of the World, Turn Left. Slor’s novel is a...

There is a long-standing acknowledgment and pattern that when women take one step forward, women of color take two steps back. A “glass ceiling” is a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that prevents women from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy. Minority women often find the most difficulty in “breaking the glass ceiling” because they exist at the intersection of two historically marginalized groups: women and people of color. When women first began to entire spaces of economic and social power that were historically occupied by White men, it was recognized that those women were...