Cover Photo: And image of an optimistic and racially diverse team of young hockey players with their boyishly handsome coach
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‘The Mighty Ducks’ Movies Taught Me How to Survive a Pandemic

I’ve found an unavoidable kinship with the Ducks. It could be, at least in my estimation, a quintessentially black American story.

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I love you

have

And have you been taking your medication

No

Well, why not?

I couldn’t afford it

W-what we can afford doesn’t matter. What can you do for her ,

Hey,We have an HBO GO free trial for five more days.

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The Mighty Ducks

I’ve tempted fate and emerged victorious

Leah Johnson is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow whose work has been published in BuzzFeed, Cosmo, Catapult, and Teen Vogue among others. Her debut YA novel, YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN was the inaugural Reese's Book Club YA pick and named a best book of the year by Marie Claire, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly. Her sophomore novel, RISE TO THE SUN, is due out in 2021.