People
What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”
A View from the Beyhive’s Cheap Seats When All You Want Is a Baby You Can’t Have
“Even in that happy space, doubt, disbelief, and a gnawing sadness started to swirl, rise, and create confusion.”
How to Look at an Argument: The Deal-Breaker
“It can’t work if I’m the only one willing to DEAL with things.”
“Why Jazz?”: A Music Festival Review
“Jazz is not a live being, and music is not subject to our laws of time.”
Live From Kosuge Village: Scenes From a Trance Concert
“There was a trance concert in the Japanese village of nine hundred people, and I didn’t know about it.”
Coming Home to Myself: A Story of Healing
“For this is the thing with secrets: They are thrilling to a child who has lived his life only in the open.”
“Let Me Pass Away”: When Your Mother Blames You for Your Cancer Diagnosis
“My mother assumed I must have done something to bring a rare blood cancer upon myself.”
Checking for Holes in the Multiverse
I pick out the universe where a bullet never fractured my skull bone.
How to Look at an Argument: The Metaphor
“What is this thing that stands between us?”
Fortunate Friends: A Leap Across the Wealth Gap and Into a New Home
A friend as your mortgage holder? It seemed like one of those things you should never, ever do.