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Serena Alagappan’s Sensitivity to (Cultural) Temperature

For Serena Alagappan, the recently elapsed Diwali and rapidly approaching Hanukkah have encapsulated years upon years of “tender” memories. From decorating clay pots, or diyas, for Deepavali to lighting the menorah for Hanukkah, “gather[ing] around flame” with loved ones has been a tradition baked into her brain since childhood – a childhood also defined mostly […]

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For Serena Alagappan, the recently elapsed Diwali and rapidly approaching Hanukkah have encapsulated years upon years of “tender” memories. From decorating clay pots, or diyas, for Deepavali to lighting the menorah for Hanukkah, “gather[ing] around flame” with loved ones has been a tradition baked into her brain since childhood – a childhood also defined mostly

A photo of the author and her friends from the boarding school in Malta in 1986.

Ubiquitous Violence

I remember when Top Gun: Maverick came out. My friends kept insisting that Maverick is “even better” than the one they loved so much, the one that came out when I was 18. Have you seen it? What did you think of it? What about the first one – what did you love best about

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I remember when Top Gun: Maverick came out. My friends kept insisting that Maverick is “even better” than the one they loved so much, the one that came out when I was 18. Have you seen it? What did you think of it? What about the first one – what did you love best about

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Where the Music Plays: On “Tori Amos Bootleg Webring” by Megan Milks and Locating Queer and Trans Identity in Online Fandom’s Archives

Megan Milks traces the origins of their queer and trans identity in a coming of age memoir about trading Tori Amos bootlegs at the dawn of the internet age. Anyone who logged onto the internet in the mid-nineties, whether through AOL or a service like CompuServe or Prodigy, engaged in the practice of authoring oneself.

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Megan Milks traces the origins of their queer and trans identity in a coming of age memoir about trading Tori Amos bootlegs at the dawn of the internet age. Anyone who logged onto the internet in the mid-nineties, whether through AOL or a service like CompuServe or Prodigy, engaged in the practice of authoring oneself.

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Loving

When I was 15, my mother fell in love with a man who was not her husband, who was not my father. The man was in every way the opposite of her husband, my father, a Chinese immigrant with a Ph.D. in political science. The man my mother fell in love with was a white

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When I was 15, my mother fell in love with a man who was not her husband, who was not my father. The man was in every way the opposite of her husband, my father, a Chinese immigrant with a Ph.D. in political science. The man my mother fell in love with was a white

Cover photo features the cover of MQR’s Fall 2022 special issue ‘Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink'

American Dreams / Wake Up Call

This is a wake up call. Oh say can you see? Will you open your eyes? Face the reality that all the things we’ve been told to get – all the things we’ve been told to be – all the things we’ve been told we’re supposed to achieve – all these things we’ve been sold

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This is a wake up call. Oh say can you see? Will you open your eyes? Face the reality that all the things we’ve been told to get – all the things we’ve been told to be – all the things we’ve been told we’re supposed to achieve – all these things we’ve been sold

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