Making the Grand Romantic Gesture
In our seven years together, we’ve thrived on routine. We’ve done long-distance before, but never quite like this.
In our seven years together, we’ve thrived on routine. We’ve done long-distance before, but never quite like this.
At the kitchen table, Jason reminded me, “It’s our wedding. I think you can say whatever you want, in any language.”
Somewhere between the one-dimensional BIPOC sidekick and the final, showstopping kiss, I forgot that I was consuming love stories built on exclusion.
Men around me speak about cancel culture with such hyperbole and terror, you’d think it was a supernatural force.
Chinese culture can’t be made bite-sized for mass consumption.
And somewhere in there, as my hands ached from the work, I began to grieve
Colin Farrell’s friend breakup in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ is eerily similar to my own. His is just more cinematic.
The rise of radical politics in shows like “Andor” offer me a surprising source of hope.
Factory-produced clothing still requires human hands. When we pay less for our clothing, it is the cost of labor at play.
The act of the trans trade, and its ritualization, came readily to hand for me, but it’s a distant possibility for so many of us.
What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?
I want to preserve this old gas station because it feels like preserving myself.
Whether one calls it “adaptation” or “assimilation” is a matter of one’s personal politics. But I—like the food I love—am undoubtedly changing.
For all of its commitment to diverse representation, the game was fundamentally another apocalypse story about the reproduction of white patriarchal violence.
While the world has continued to change, Kraft’s product has remained the same, somehow evading inflation at one or two dollars per box.
In the ‘Beloved,’ ‘The Baby,’ and ‘Barbarian,’ Black women grapple with vengeful mothers and children. In my life, I’ve broken that cycle.
Rebranding beauty rituals as self-acceptance does nothing to remove the obligation that says we must aspire to be beautiful.
Love and connection require emotional risk. After the harrowing nature of the last three years, I needed ‘Our Flag Means Death’ to remind me.
The critiques Mindy Kaling received shaped the representation we see on-screen today as much as her successes did.
“Sign o’ the Times” is candy for a cute little he/they like me.