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For Queer Girls, Simping Is a Love Language
I’m embracing the label, with all its yearning, try-hard connotations, because desire shouldn’t be embarrassing and love does require trying hard.
My First Taste of Protest In a Thai Roadside Café
Will it challenge how they feel about the kingdom? The nationalistic pride of what it means to be Thai?
Can We Dance as the World Falls Apart?
When Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, I found myself asking: What pleasures are permissible during wartime?
The Curious Lives of Ski Migrants
Look closely and you see something that has been left behind, mourned, and reassembled from new parts.
A Final Kampai for Angel’s Share, My Favorite Bar in New York
Why not form friendship around a love of good drink, openness, and a desire to treat each other with fairness?
My Father Tried to Preserve Nature—And the Best of Him—In His Writing
My father has been gone for so long now. There’s nothing for me to escape anymore. I read his book to try to believe him again.
Little Girls Get to Be Ingénues—What About Big Girls?
Make me thin, I told God. Make me pretty. I added to the list: Make me Annie.
Finding Love When You’re Forty and Happily Single
My identity is tied up in my singleness, my childlessness, and I’m not sure I want to let that go.
Learning to Live in a Body That Fights Itself
I have spent most of my life hating the fact of having a body. It makes sense that my body would eventually start to hate me back.
On Playing Risk and Studying the Maps of Colonialism
Soon after I bought the game, I began to obsess over another map, one that also didn’t fully exist.