Bodies
When the Worst Body-Shaming Comes from Those You Love
“Have my friends and family been hoping for a new me? Have they all been waiting for a transformation?”
Hunger Inside My Queer Body
“I wanted to be like that: hard and boney, a body full of fuck-you’s.”
The Trouble with Angels: Taming a Halo of Unruly Hair
“In the beauty parlor, I watch my ringlets collect like dark, bushy tumbleweeds on the checkered floor.”
To Surrender Our Bodies to the Appetites of Others
Shaving pubic hair. Accepting mother’s advice. Can a woman (or a horse) own her experience of the world?
A Test of Self-Love: Competing for Mr. Rockbear 2017
“I wanted to finally be free from the anxiety of wondering if I would be seen as attractive, or seen at all.”
A Myth About Self-Harm
When I cut myself it wasn’t for attention. I cut to feel safe. And to stay sober.
“I need more time”: Weighing the Option of Egg Freezing
I’ll go through the egg-freezing procedure that will give me the chance of maybe, one day, having a child.
The Wanking Foreigner From ‘The Big Bang Theory’
“I have a theory that Western popular culture is on a mission to desexualize Asian men. And it’s working.”
Sex, Frogs, and the New Political Order
“If you opened me up you would find no redness, no veins, only a political thunderstorm.”
It’s Crying Time
Eyes up, no tears. Dad’s stage-four cancer, I thought, shouldn’t cause everyone to break down.