“In typical Filipino fashion, my aunt expressed her love not through words of encouragement or affectionate embraces, but through food. Food was how she communicated. Food was how she found her place in the world. When someone rejected her food, they were really rejecting her… Read More
“The last war was on a different shore, with different people, in a different country, and there’s no going back, back to that life. She realizes this now, but that doesn’t make it ache any less. In fact, the ache grows. It grows into two… Read More
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Imagine that your family has always had a generations-long feud with another family. Now, imagine that you have been raised to particularly hate a member of that family who is your age — the two of you have always competed academically and athletically, but have… Read More
DETRANSITION, BABY features the type of queer representation I’ve only dreamt of reading: chaotic, complex, dazzling, not particularly redemptive, and so excruciatingly honest that it would have made Carrie Fisher proud. It’s honest enough that, at times, I felt like it would only be polite… Read More
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