In an unusual print-only feature, Guncotton (Radiclani Clytus, Terrance Hayes, Virginia Jackson, Arun Kale, Alisha Sett, and Rajesh Vora) visually renders the networks of exploitation that have bound the American South and colonial India through the cotton trade, giving us …
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It wasn’t a real bar. It was a makeshift place, a crowded room in the back of someone’s house. Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” played softly in the background, softly because they didn’t want to attract attention, though …
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When my swim coach, an elderly man with a Dean of Something or Other job sexually harassed me, I let it go. It wasn’t like he was really harassing harassing. Just asking us to twirl in front of his desk …
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Forty-nine-year-old Yumi Kobayashi is not ashamed to say she is obsessed with League of Legends, an online video game in which the typical player demographic is a seventeen-year-old maladjusted boy who smells like funk and nihilism.
Actually this is not …
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On Lunar New Year, we dressed up and visited our Buddhist temple outside Dallas. Dad wore tight jeans, brown loafers, and a button-down shirt that had armani emblazoned on his left breast. Mom rocked Chanel sunglasses and a Gucci clutch. …
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“There you go, speaking harm into being.”
—My mother said that.
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She said that when I shrieked over
centipedes having more
centipedes in our bedroom
baseboards. Will I wake
up with …
Liberace had his lovers turn their faces into his own like a man-mirror. What is the opposite of this gesture? Something spiritual for sure. I am constantly reminded that religion is creepy but perhaps our sole hope for kindness. I …
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In 1985, on the way to a bathhouse, Bà’s head
was a gong eclipsing the sun. His ground-loving flip-flops
making a broken ragtime on the street.
Walking past. I was five. I had known
a few dangers. Those hot Bāozi …
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