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Digital Distortions: Reflections on Zoom and Body Dysmorphia
We’ve spent quarantine in faulty mirrors, sparking negative feedback loops.
Dear Imo: A Letter from the Korean Diaspora
I made a promise, too, that I would bring her back to you.
Business in the Front, Rebellion in the Back
My childhood rat tail was a lesson on the borders of class and gender.
Cut Knuckles
There—the small red cut marks on the knuckles, which any bulimic could identify as those made by the teeth when finger-inducing vomiting.
How Heaux Tales Taught Me to Shed Shame
Like Jazmine Sullivan’s “The Other Side,” a song from her latest EP, Heaux Tales, I saw a life outside the confines of conservatism—the length of my skirt and the policing of what I was allowed to say and do.
We’re in Sasquatch Country Now
How the Bigfoot legend helped me reconcile unanswered questions about my adoption
That Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Wanted for My “Almond-Shaped” Eyes
My former therapist, a well-meaning white woman, once asked me, “Do you think he treated you badly because you are Asian?”
The Life of a Cup of Coffee, as Told by Sabine Parrish
“Consumers in the Global South have a right to the best coffees from their nations, their sister nations, from wherever they want.”
A Gay Gaye Holud for Two Bengali Brides
Promiti Islam on queerness, Bengali-American identity, and the complexities of family acceptance,
Notes From a White-Passing Asian
Can you ever escape your complicity when you can’t escape your own skin?