Columns
Mountains, Monasteries, and Myths: What I Discovered While Living in My Darjeeling Family Home
After a youth spent trying to ignore my Asian heritage, I came looking for it. My journey turned out to be the beginning of an excavation that continues to this day.
The Ugly Beautiful and Other Failings of Disability Representation
Those who spend their lives in bodies others deem unworthy grow accustomed to building our own self-worth.
Cooking, For Men: How Bobby Flay and Competitive Cooking Reinforce Hypermasculinity
I suspect that these shows, which characterize speed and hustle as natural elements of cooking, are part of the male professional kitchen’s effort to divorce their work from the feminine history of cooking.
Theses on ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery’
The decline from mascbot into mere mascot is that which transmasculinity resists. And it is the challenge that “the Austin Powers type” encounters, too.
When I Froze My Eggs, I Wasn’t Prepared for the Depression That Followed
I wish I had been warned—not because it would have changed my mind about the procedure, but because I might have been more prepared.
Beavers Were Among New York’s First Builders—Then We Built a City They Can No Longer Live In
Imagining the city rebuilt so that beavers can return is an exercise in humility.
I Spent Years Searching for Magic—I Found God Instead
I wanted to outrun the Nothing. And there was nothing I would not have sacrificed—friendships, relationships, the blood from the heel of my foot—to get it.
Sandra Lee Opened a Can, Made a Cocktail, and Showed Me a Mother’s Love
Critics say that Sandra Lee’s idea of cooking is nothing more than opening a can and having a cocktail. Here’s the thing: That’s true! But who cares?
Learning the Laws of Desire from Antonio Banderas (and His Briefs)
Boxers hide. Jockstraps flaunt. Briefs titillate by the very shape they contour and convey.
On Esther’s Vengeance and the Beauty of Women’s Rage
Esther, you are a queen not because of your physical perfection, but because of the horror and rage you transformed it into.
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