“Living in a van represented a new, glamorous ideal, unburdened from homeownership and a steady job — unmoored, even, from the physical world itself. If owning a home was no longer possible, there was endless space on Instagram.”
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‘The Price For Your Return to Normal Is My Life’: On Dismantling Layers of the Doll
“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
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Seeing in the Dark
“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
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We Need to Translate More Armenian Literature
“We need them to assert our very existence.”
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Haphephobia
“The day I told her I was gay, the hugs changed. They became longer and tighter, like she was trying to hug the sin out of me.”
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The Kitchen Dad
“Place the oyster on a bed of ice and go to the next one. It’s possible to refine this technique to perfection. Like changing a diaper.”
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The Dolly Moment
“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”
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A Cultural History of Racial Fraud
What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?
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“Addiction is a thief of your goodbyes”
“I got angry, my mother cried, the addicts got high. That became a holiday theme for years to come.”