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Matthew Shepard Bought an Engagement Ring
I knew about Matt’s legacy, but I didn’t know much about his life.
Your Friend Group Should Look Like the Cast of a Twenty-Something Drama (and Other Myths About Millennial Friendship)
New responsibilities clogged up phone lines and changed what used to be lifelines—how were we supposed to maintain our relationships?
Going from Other to Local in Mumbai
I was certain my appearance would mask my secret: that I didn’t belong.
Embracing My Queerness in the Wake of Grief
I wondered how I would confront what I thought was my worst: my sexuality.
Does Making Predictions Impede the Formation of Memories?
When your brain is presented with a scenario, it makes a decision: Does it file this moment away as a unique event, or slot the information into an existing pattern?
To Get Through My Divorce, I Raised the Golem
It was an acrimonious divorce. I wanted justice. I settled for truth.
My Radical Instagram Sangha: A Love Letter
A space has been created by this unflinching journalism, this unabashed Instagram memoir.
Becoming My Family’s Partition Archivist
Maybe it’s unnatural to talk to my grandparents about Partition like an anthropologist rather than a granddaughter.
God Wants You to Be Thin (and Other Lies the Evangelical Church Taught Me)
I believed I had been nurtured, like a lamb, for one purpose: Mine was to be thin.
The Mango Missile Crisis
After her arrest, I started to understand. All the racist slights and foolish men my mother had endured. More reasons to be angry than I could count.