<![CDATA[Stories by Jaylin Leslie on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@jaylinleslie?source=rss-ff6faf8a5743------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*GPOi3jNpO5b5Etq6pDBeCg@2x.jpeg Stories by Jaylin Leslie on Medium https://medium.com/@jaylinleslie?source=rss-ff6faf8a5743------2 Medium Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:52:44 GMT <![CDATA[The Gift of Life]]>

One of the things that I find to be so miraculous about life is how we carry everything with us.  As these tiny, fragile humans, we carry…

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]]> https://medium.com/@jaylinleslie/the-gift-of-life-45d3a70999e3?source=rss-ff6faf8a5743------2 https://medium.com/p/45d3a70999e3 Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:07:01 GMT 2025-12-13T15:07:01.924Z <![CDATA[The Myth of Opportunistic Scarcity]]>

America’s arrested development and the gap between entitlement and opportunity.

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Maybe I was romantic.

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Lessons and observations.

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letters from the ancestors

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i wonder have we always been this way?

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]]> https://medium.com/@jaylinleslie/upper-class-f7aedad32431?source=rss-ff6faf8a5743------2 https://medium.com/p/f7aedad32431 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:26:06 GMT 2024-11-18T20:26:06.223Z <![CDATA[When Will We Believe Black Women?]]>

Theories, contemplations and observations.

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Critiquing the stories that hinder and the voices that suffoo

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The worst thing I ever done was work a job, said, every successor.

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