Columns
Despite Its Dark Ending, ‘Ginger Snaps’ Still Made Me Want a Sibling
My preoccupation with suicide was less about actually dying and more about grappling with my own sense of agency in the world.
What Cabbage Teaches Us about Care and Culture
It has been domesticated across Asia for so long, its movements have become opaque.
Queerness Gave Me a New Way of Seeing Myself
That afternoon, I learned again something I had known before: that I wasn’t completely straight.
Let’s Crack Open a Couple of Cold Ones
When it comes to how I experience Dad Culture, I have to admit I’m a sucker for beers.
Dear TVXQ, Shipping Showed Me a Way Out of the Church
This is From a K-pop Fan, With Love, a column by Giaae Kwon about her K-pop obsessions, past and present. When I’m barely twenty years old, I go to a friend’s house for an impromptu reunion. I haven’t kept in touch with most of the people from my high school youth group, so I wander […]
Finding Gender in a Razor
Shaving with it was more seductive than expected.
Finding Self-Acceptance at the Skating Rink
But the boundaries of class dissolved as I noticed kids at the rink.
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Baking My Mother’s Recipes Keeps Her Near
Baking was solely Mom’s domain, I believed, and cooking for her was mine.
Tea Eggs Have Always Tasted Like Home
In the first weeks after my arrival in Taipei, I ate more of these eggs than I’d like to admit.
No One Is Waiting to Steal Your Joy
Growing up with abuse, I came to see the experience of joy as inseparable from the threat that it would all soon be undone.
