Arts & Culture
Listening to Kelis Taught Me to Embrace Anger
Her anger had made its way to her music; my anger couldn’t find a home outside my own head.
How Queer Sex Liberated Me
Leaving my cishet marriage was hard, but it set us both free to find more satisfying relationships.
Sex, Lies, and Vampires: Rethinking ‘Twilight’ and Purity Rings
Without anywhere to talk about sex or process it, ‘Twilight’ offered an alternative space to unravel my own private desire.
My Father, Montaigne, and the Art of Living
When my father died in 2012, I inherited his well-read copy of Montaigne’s ‘Essais.’
On Preserving Taiwanese Through Romanization
But was there a better way to put these pronunciations on the page?
What Kind of Sonnets Will Computers Write?
If poetry is an act of discovery for a writer, then even a computational poem has to uncover something new.
How Saunf (or Mukhwas, or Fennel Candy) Built Me a Home
To these writers, saunf occurred in the world as a curiosity, but not as an inevitability.
An Ode to the Great Undead Novella
Where I lived and grew up, the novella was never endangered.
How ‘Drag Race’ Helped Me See My Non-Binary Identity
When I look at my personal aesthetic (if I could call it that), I see something that gives me room to move through binaries.
In Praise of Spoon and Fork
Could I really not keep anything from the unbearable whiteness of being?
