Ismael Perez
Columnist, audience specialist
Ismael Pérez is a columnist and audience specialist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
In 1955, Eppie Lederer became the Sun-Times’ third “Ann Landers,” bringing the advice column national prominence. This is an advice column for today. Send in your questions.
Making choices about your future after graduation can seem overwhelming. Does your whole life ride on one ‘yes’ or ‘no’? There’s another way to think of your life plans.
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A journalist’s coming-out story in the 1970s. Straight reporters taking on the gay beat. Where are we now?
I learned about how people dissociate to detach themselves from trauma by watching the “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” documentary on Hulu. It was a revelation.
The Illinois 2022 primary election is Tuesday, June 28. Primary elections are held to nominate a party’s candidate to run in the November general election. We’ve compiled this voter guide on who’s running in selected races.
When Tito died last weekend surrounded by his sisters and my dad, I couldn’t help but reflect on how much of a mystery he was to a Mexican gay kid like me.
Skin color bias, offered as a compliment, is a custom that goes back generations in Black and Brown communities. But there’s an unsettling undercurrent, of course. It can feel like a measure of how much you are — or can be — loved.
My insecurities washed away as I discovered my new neighborhood. One small hint after another told me Chicago was home.