The Pandemic Forever Changed How We Think About the Future
“When I think about the future,” Kyana Moghadam, 36, says over plates of lukewarm rigatoni at an overpriced Williamsburg café. “I go blank...."
GQ, originally in Victory Journal
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9th June 2022
Queen of Hearts
She covered the last ten minutes of the ride in five and locked her bike up in front of Kingsborough Community College, at the far tip of Sheepshead Bay, where she was studying travel and tourism.
Nobody Zine
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1st January 2022
Fully the Being that I Am: Q&A with Author & Perfumer, Tanaïs
Until a couple years ago, I’d never worn perfume regularly. It always felt either wildly out of reach, or frilly and cheap.
Outside Online
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9th December 2021
‘The Oregon Trail’ Isn’t Just a Game
Every Wednesday in Mrs. Keller’s fifth-grade classroom at Dunsmuir Elementary in Northern California, my friends and I clamored for a spot at the computer to play The Oregon Trail.
Gossamer
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27th October 2021
Ties That Bind
In The Third Body, French-Algerian author and theorist Hélène Cixous interweaves autobiography, letters, and fantasy to create what she calls a "third body" between herself and a lover.
Gossamer
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1st April 2021
All The Things We Cannot Keep
I have this set of love letters. Their envelopes are worn soft. The papery rectangles are hand-painted by an artist, a man whose small-town swagger captured me at 15, and again at 20 in a dark, smelly bar I snuck into.
Harper's BAZAAR
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4th February 2021
Before There Were Instagram Horoscopes, There Was Susan Miller
If social media introduced a new wave of interest in astrology, then Susan Miller is its dot-com foremother.
Victory Journal
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29th January 2021
Wizard Mode
Before they were married, Louise and Eric Wagensonner spent their Thursday nights playing pool at Delirium, a windowless, tunnel-shaped dive bar in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Gossamer
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8th July 2020
The Prophetic Flower
In the introduction to French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s whimsical classic The Little Prince, a Turkish astronomer discovers a new planet, but the scientific community doesn’t believe him because he’s dressed poorly.
Bitch
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24th June 2020
The Queer Gaming Avant Garde
"The here and now is a prison house," wrote the late scholar and theorist José Muñoz. “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potential.”
NYLON
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4th June 2019
An Ode To The Bodysuit
As a flat-chested '90s tween, I spent most of my time in a one-piece. On weekends, I rocked trendy snap-crotch bodysuits while running my neighborhood dance troupe's rehearsal to "Baby Got Back."
Narratively
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21st January 2019
My Adventures With Dr. Lovewisdom
"Go all the way down this road,” the driver said as he pulled my giant backpack from the combi, a hybrid van-taxi, before chugging off and leaving me at the gated entrance to Vilcabamba, Ecuador’s southernmost village.
