Discrimination Archives

As Coronavirus leads to a rise in racism, Cathy Park Hong, author of the essay collection, “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,” reviews the history of slurs and hate crimes against Asians in America, and catalogues the growing number of them here and around the world — including her own experience of being called a […]

Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

In Defense of Boris the Russki

by Ayşegül Savaş January 22, 2020December 30, 2022

Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.

Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

In Jo’s Image

by Jeanna Kadlec December 19, 2019December 30, 2022

Jeanna Kadlec considers the impact of Little Women’s matriarchy — and its heroine — on the formation of her own queer identity.

Essays & Criticism, Feature, History, Nonfiction, Story

Where are the Gay Ladies of Cambodia?

by Lindsey Danis December 9, 2019December 30, 2022

Honeymooning in Cambodia, Lindsey Danis and her wife seek refuge in queer spaces, but struggle to find the acceptance granted to male travelers.

Party Girl

by Sari Botton November 21, 2019October 19, 2022

An essay in which Longreads contributor Monica Drake recounts learning that a young, white, male intern at a literary magazine she’d submitted to had publicly humiliated her by taking her story to a party to read aloud and mock a sex scene she had included — a scene in which gender dynamics are upended.