On Inheritance
What if, when you ran your fingers along the embroidery, you could hear the voices of your ancestors?
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ReadPorch Pull Up Ep. 204
“Tinkering a Way, Together: An Interview with Plastivap Inventor Mirukosee Balan” -
ReadProtest Song in Six Verses
Blue ash of skin between the rubble, a child’s body buried beneath concrete, these images are stitched beneath my eyelids, stuck. -
ReadThe Ones Who Walk Away
The sinking feeling trailed me as I worked my way around the room: There’d been a precious opening, and I’d wasted it. -
Read“Bwah-ju-yoh.”
In my writing, my father is ‘Dad,’ because I need this less intimate address as a buffer from what I have lost, left behind, or perhaps never even had. -
ReadSaint Agatha of Sicily Died a Virgin
“Agatha refused to fuck a magistrate, so he imprisoned her in a brothel.” -
ReadHe Who Brought the Sun
“We all had something to pray for.” -
ReadWith a Hunger to Swallow the World
“December, 2017; I tell a boy with low self-esteem that I love him ‘unconditionally’ and now I have to prove it.” -
ReadI Am Made of Fatalities and Rainbow Roads
“In these video games, there were victories and meaningless losses. I had something I didn’t have to be good at.” -
ReadOn Fiestaware, Ashes, and Dancing Again
“I can’t separate my experience of being raised by gay people from my experience of being raised by people who watched a lot of their friends die young.” -
ReadTip of the Tongue, Teeth and the Lips
“Our plan had been to wait until the next time we visited to tell them we would be moving in together, but I also had my own discreet plan.” -
ReadA Young Woman’s Guide to Self-Deportation
Wait a year, or two, or ten. Or maybe you’ll wait two decades — squeezing through the cracks in eVerify and RealID until the bureaucratic walls grow too high and you must go under. -
ReadHoly Land, Holy Life
On October 10th, 2023, I rediscover a keffiyeh — a traditional Palestinian scarf — while unpacking boxes in my new apartment in Seattle. -
ReadNot Vanishing
It’s Monday morning, April 2020, and I am trying to see if my dad has had a stroke from 800 miles away.
