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Layah Shagalow
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Oct 9

You cannot kill my faith with a semi automatic.

*Written on the eve of the New Zealand Mosque Shootings. Religion is a complicated topic. Just writing that sentence feels like bracing for impact. My whole life has been bracing for impact. And absorbing the impact more times than I’d like to believe. On Thursday night I did something I…

Israel

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You cannot kill my faith with a semi automatic.
You cannot kill my faith with a semi automatic.
Israel

4 min read


Feb 21

Future Work

I find my myself constantly saying goodbye. It feels like as soon as one change has completed, another is waiting in the wings. Just when I get my feet beneath me, another sucker punch knocks me right off them. I am awash in transition and it appears to be my…

Millennials

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Future Work
Future Work
Millennials

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Oct 21, 2022

This Millennial Hustle: The Post Script

Traditionally, a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. They’re written, or told, like a journey, starting at point A, concluding at point B, with a compelling problem to be solved along the way. Something to be resolved, a lesson to be learned, a timeless takeaway for those…

Millennials

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This Millennial Hustle: The Post Script
This Millennial Hustle: The Post Script
Millennials

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Jun 14, 2021

Conflict of interest

I’ve been trying to figure it out, for far too long now. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the things that seem to be driving me crazy. How can some people think that what they’re doing is ok, and yet how can we all feel that way about…

Conflict

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Conflict of interest
Conflict of interest
Conflict

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Jun 1, 2021

When you think of me.

Hi there. I’m present Layah. Or for the sake of this conversation, I’m future Layah. Because I recently read back my last Medium post, and I’ll be honest, Layah from the past was not so ok. When I told everyone not to think of me, it came from a deep…

Millennials

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When you think of me.
When you think of me.
Millennials

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Feb 8, 2021

Please don't think of me

The other day, I woke up to a text from an elementary school classmate I hadn't spoken to in 15 years. We went to different high schools and live in different states. Our paths rarely cross and haven't for a very, very long time. And yet there she was, in…

Dating

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Please don't think of me
Please don't think of me
Dating

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Apr 20, 2020

A letter of love from the beginning of a new world.

Because I don’t know how else to thank you. A couple of months ago I sat cross-legged on my bed and wrote a letter to my friends called “Greetings from the end of the world”, about what it felt like to be going through the beginning of a pandemic. I…

Love

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A letter of love from the beginning of a new world.
A letter of love from the beginning of a new world.
Love

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Mar 17, 2020

Greetings from the end of the world.

I have to say, it’s a lot cozier than I expected. And, despite the lack of toilet paper at Target, it’s a lot calmer too. It’s the end of the world. That’s what the media says. They keep telling us numbers and using words meant to scare us. …

Pandemic

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Greetings from the end of the world.
Greetings from the end of the world.
Pandemic

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Jan 28, 2020

I have seen the future, and it is soggy.

It was summer 2017 and my cousin and I were hiding out from the oppressive New York City heat in the air-conditioned lounge of the newly opened One Brooklyn Bridge Hotel. The place was brand new; a mostly undiscovered hidden gem at the edge of Brooklyn Bridge park. The lounge…

Millennials

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I have seen the future, and it is soggy.
I have seen the future, and it is soggy.
Millennials

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Nov 12, 2019

This Millennial Hustle Ends Here

Right where it started. Over the past month and half there were at least five times that I sat down thinking I knew how this story would end. Each time, something held me back from being able to put the words on paper. It just wasn’t the end quite yet…

Life Lessons

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This Millennial Hustle Ends Here
This Millennial Hustle Ends Here
Life Lessons

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