writing 🍒
reported
On vigilante TikTokers chasing ICE vehicles
(The Nation, 2025)
On Viet Thanh Nguyen & Asian American Literature
(The Emancipator, 2025)
On Deja Foxx, running to be the first Gen Z Congresswoman
(Teen Vogue, 2025)
On cultural divides over ChatGPT usage
(Impact, 2025)
On Basketdolls, NYC's trans streetball league
(Service95 by Dua Lipa, 2025)
On Chappell Roan's creative director Misha Sattar
(Joysauce, 2025)
On Desi parents healing with their trans children
(Autostraddle, 2025)
On Ginger's Bar and the endurance of lesbian bars
(Autostraddle, 2025)
On Asian American drag queens organizing nightlife
(The Emancipator, 2025)
On Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, star of Netflix's Never Have I Ever
(Washington Post, 2020)
On Indian Americans rallying to send Covid-19 Aid
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2021)
On layoffs of Black women
(Impact, 2025)
On women hit by the Covid-19 recession
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2021)
On Bay Area artists' "pandemic babies"
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2021)
On youth police abolition movements
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2021)
On Black-Asian racial tensions in SF's Chinatown
(San Francisco Chronicle, 2021)
On youth of color in the gun violence prevention movement
(Refinery29, 2020)
On Pulse shooting survivor healing through dance
(Teen Vogue, 2018)
essays / criticism
On comphet and choosing lesbianism
(Autostraddle, 2025)
On the unbearable whiteness of Sally Rooney's Normal People
(Electric Literature, 2021)
On the so-called Gen Z sex recession
(Impact, 2025)
On centering my female friendships during Covid-19
(Washington Post, 2020)
On Dean Spade and modern queer love
(Electric Literature, 2025)
On reading Indian women writers
(The Emancipator, 2025)
On Ocean Vuong haters
(The Emancipator, 2025)
On TikTok, which made Gen Z gay
(Mixed Feelings, 2025)
On shooting your shot as a hopeless sapphic
(Impact, 2025)
On Michelle Tea's Valencia, at 25
(Autostraddle, 2025)
On problematic brown girls in Never Have I Ever
(Teen Vogue, 2025)
On Hollywood's serial killer obsession
(Nylon, 2025)
On Kamala Harris's uniquely immigrant campaign
(The Emancipator, 2025)