Jun 27, 2019
I’m Done With Cautionary Tales About Women and Power
Lilly Dancyger on casting spells and re-watching The Craft during an election season.
Lilly Dancyger on casting spells and re-watching The Craft during an election season.
One reason I fell in love with Japan is the way each season is embraced and celebrated. Living here has changed my view of them—and of myself.
From the Congo to a refugee camp in Kenya to resettlement in Austin, TX—this is the story of a doctor who is starting over.
Adele and Frank prepare for an empty nest.
I was single for the first time in eighteen years. I felt unmoored. For the first time in eighteen years, everything was new, including me.
The world of this movie is a world in which transness is not the exception but the rule.
I need something that is going to tingle, tell me the food is alive. Because I want to be alive, too.
I think about the many invisible struggles, the empty places I have had to fill for my kids. The bridges I’ve had to build.
I take off the effects of the day, the echoes of wind, sleet, and snow. I pamper my skin, urge it to replenish and heal. I am asking myself to brave another day.
When I search for my father, I feel his numbers. Here’s a house number on my friend’s street that mimics the first few digits of my father’s phone. Here, at the 7/11, my receipt totals the amount of the last four digits of his SSN.
I flew to Taiwan the year I turned thirty-six, a trip I’d booked solely for the purpose of freezing my eggs.
By farming, I connect back to my own culture. To, pun intended, my roots. To what it means to be a child of immigrants and help things grow.
Do other people ascribe “luck” to objects? I wondered. Wouldn’t it be far better to finally use this kitchen appliance and truly love it?
I blamed my mother for so many things, but I blamed her especially for being a mere mortal when what I really needed was a supreme, supernaturally benevolent being.
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to overlook certain aspects of her appearance.
Of all the things that have come and gone in my life, I wanted this one thing, just one: to be a writer.
Wearing the catsuit and embodying Pfeiffer’s slinkiness as best I could in my awkward, skinny body, I understood for the first time that I could be a sexual being, not just a sexual object.
Disability is not wrong or tragic or bad, but sometimes it is a symptom of a grave injustice.
“Some memes may actually dissolve the original significance of iconic photographs and potentially degrade, rather than enhance, public culture.”
Sometimes I joke that I’m already primed for motherhood because I’m already well-versed in guilt, blaming myself for things over which I have little control.
