People
Reconnecting With My Grandad’s Heritage As He Began to Forget It
My connections to the country and its people, my family, didn’t require control or even words. Touch, color, and togetherness were enough.
Why We Open Our Doors on Halloween (Even If We Can’t This Year)
Our Halloween traditions hearken back to rituals of dispelling threats through communal acts of giving and receiving.
On Preserving Taiwanese Through Romanization
But was there a better way to put these pronunciations on the page?
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.
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?
How Did Vicks VapoRub Become Every Brown Person’s Cure-All?
Maybe these home remedies aren’t just tricks or distractions. Maybe they are insistences on our well-being.
How Legend of Korra Gave a Big Black Girl Permission to Be Broken
Though she lives, some part of Korra—the flame throwing hothead, insistent on taking up space—does not survive.
On Sex Work and Risk During a Pandemic
I couldn’t afford to live on academic wages, so I became a dominatrix. But after Covid-19, the risks became too great.
On Sharks, Sickness, and Swimming Anyway
Nora Feely on cancer, facing her fears by naming them, and navigating a world filled with sharks