Oct 25, 2021
The Script Characters with Cancer Are Told to Follow
Nora Feely on unrealistic storylines and tropes of characters with cancer, what it means to "survive," gratitude and toxic positivity, and more.
I Didn’t Want to Miss Baby Night
Children appear in horror all the time because to parent one is naturally terrifying.
Oct 25, 2021
What a Seashell Souvenir Tells Me About Loss
Selfishly, as a writer, I’m also worried about the seasons to come.
Oct 21, 2021
In Taiwan, Running Led Me to My Community—and to Myself
A place doesn’t begin to feel like a home until it contains people you care for.
Oct 20, 2021
Between Parent and Child: A Recipe for Kodomo-Don
I call it 子供丼 (kodomo-don), because it is only egg over rice. Something about it is simple, one rank lower in maturity than an adult dish.
Oct 19, 2021
Getting Diagnosed with ADHD Changed Everything and Nothing
The doctor said she knew in the first five minutes. In eighteen years of schooling and thirty-nine years on the planet, no one else had ever noticed.
Oct 07, 2021
Did I Want Tony Stark Or Want to Be Him?
‘Iron Man’ is far from the origin story of my sexuality, but it’s an inescapable part of the multiverse that is my queerness.
Oct 04, 2021
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?
Sep 30, 2021
Being a Dad Means Respecting the Yard
Part of how I think about myself as a dad is how I take care of other people, but it’s also in how I care for the living world around me.
Sep 29, 2021
A Fictional Interview with the Nonfictional Man Known as D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper is immortal because he only lived for a couple of hours, from the time he boarded the Boeing 727 until the time he jumped out of it.
Sep 28, 2021
Lessons On Diasporic Identity from Meme Culture
There was something mutually exclusive about being either an eldest immigrant daughter or a normal, well-adjusted adult.
Sep 27, 2021
Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend
Superman whomst? Lois Lane outsold.
Sep 23, 2021
“My art is a way to show that we are fighting”
For us in Myanmar, the art reflects our reality.
Sep 21, 2021
What Kind of Doctor Do I Want to Be?
We can resist the violences we know firsthand, to truly equate teaching and learning with openheartedness, with survival, even with nurture.
Sep 20, 2021
Give Disability Feminism the Respect It Deserves
We speak of the radicalization of disabled people, but so few have that experience. So many never even know us.
Sep 20, 2021
Ingredients of a Goosebump
All the things I would have shielded my younger self from, they crop up in books, too. And they are not the monsters with the glowing eyes.
Sep 16, 2021
Finding Solace and Sardines at The 99 Cents Only Store
There was always a feeling of limitless potential at the 99 Cents Store.
Sep 15, 2021
How I Tricked Myself Into Thinking I’d Be Better off as Dirt
Maybe at the end of my conscious existence, my body would be useful as nutrients.
Sep 14, 2021
Having a Child Meant Imagining a New Way to Make Theater
I had to imagine an environment in which theater-making and parenting could not only coexist, but nourish and inform one another.
Sep 13, 2021
For Anxious Loneliness: A Recipe for Mushroom Wafu Spaghetti
In adolescence, weekend lunches meant fending for ourselves. On certain Saturdays, my sister and I ate wafu spaghetti together.
Sep 08, 2021
