Sticky Notes
“But as I stand on the curb, watching the blue and white shuttle wheeze into the fog, I know that she’s not really leaving and will never be gone from my life in the way that I tend to fear.” A collection of stories about friends and driving.
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“So let’s return to the image of me slouched in front of my whirring laptop at 2:23AM, my Youtube feed filtered to nothing but tarot videos. Is this joy? Where is the undeniable, unstoppable undergoing?”
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“Maybe I’ll forget how to write. Maybe ideas will stop coming to me. Maybe I’ll write about everything I know, and then there will be nothing left. So every poem needs to be the best poem yet, I’ll tell myself, because this might be the last one.”
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“A friend I love dearly recently told me to think about ways to remind myself of the people in my life. I had just confessed to feeling see-through, like an evil plastic bag on a turbulent day.”
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“In case you haven’t already heard of Taco Bell Quarterly, I’ll include a quick rundown: it’s the ultimate amalgamation of art and (you guessed it) Taco Bell, the most glorious home that a piece of Taco Bell writing and its Taco Bell writer could ever dream of.”
Read More“I spent a lot of my life being ‘drilled with words,’ a phrase which here means: the treatment methods I received for my dyslexia unintentionally oriented my relationship with language to be an antagonistic one.”
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“The character of Korra is not meant to liberate. At best, she placates the whiny liberals; at worse, she acts as a magical, approachable Uncle Tom with the intention to reinforce oppressive dominant ideologies in the minds of the very people she claims to represent.”
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“It is important to acknowledge the untapped potential of Lars’ character with respect to representing the Filipinx community — the Filipinx identity is far too complex to be reduced to an ube cake (that only makes a singular appearance, no less!).”
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“A closer look at Johnny Bravo paints the animated series as less an example of hypermasculinity than a parody of it.”
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“If I were to describe K-dramas and C-dramas with one word, it would be this: pre-packaged.”
Read More“In ‘As Relic, As Remnant,’ Li writes of a city that shifts as it ages, one that has forsaken its former population for the glamor of a newer, richer one, forgotten the ‘chip-toothed lawns / fraying gray / like old boutique lace.’”
Read More“As I have aged the world has gotten bigger while I have gotten smaller. Things seem to make more and more sense as my need to define them or pin them down has abated.”
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