• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

Thailand

A patient in a blue and pink dress lays out estrogen injection materials on a hotel room bed.
Posted inFeature

Behind the Story: Mailee Osten-Tan on Reporting on Gender Confirmation Surgery in Thailand

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 9, 2022October 18, 2022

Mailee Osten-Tan on learning how to be a better ally to the members of marginalized communities and what she discovered while reporting on trans healthcare issues for Longreads.

Woman behind a curtain, looking out a window
Posted inFeature

Finding a Path in a Broken System

by Mailee Osten-Tan June 8, 2022October 18, 2022

Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.

Posted inEditor's Pick

There Has Been Blood

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 10, 2021October 19, 2022

“For more than five decades, the Thai palm oil industry has been marred by rampant exploitation, violence, and corporate greed. Thailand is the world’s No. 3 producer of palm oil.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

At Mrs. Balbir’s

by Jillian Dunham January 27, 2020December 30, 2022

Jillian Dunham traveled thousands of miles from home to get away from her grief. It found her anyway, in a stranger’s Bangkok apartment.

Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Thailand’s Rich Escape Prosecution

by Aaron Gilbreath September 18, 2019October 19, 2022

Thailand’s criminal justice system is plauged by an accepted double standard, where corruption prevails.

Posted inHighlight, Quotes

Into the Mouth of Madness and Out Again, Alive

by michelleweber February 6, 2019October 19, 2022

“The pool drill, the rock drill, the sedation drill. Everything is done. Everything but the thing that’s never been done.”

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

Rainy Season

by juliawick February 23, 2016October 19, 2022

Two young sisters living in Thailand sneak off their diplomatic compound for a night of beauty and danger in this spellbinding short story.

Posted inBooks, Fiction

Rainy Season

by juliawick February 23, 2016October 19, 2022

Two young sisters living in Thailand sneak off their diplomatic compound for a night of beauty and danger in this spellbinding short story.

Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Mastodon
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}