A note about the work "Dyed" from Anji Shin: At its core, this story is about girlhood — the ways in which girls are coded to behave, and how much of this is taught and enforced by girls ourselves. Within this, I wanted to explore how desirability and belonging become inseparable, and the ways girls are taught to perform and ritualize both. My hope is that I’ve written something true to my own lived experience as a Korean girl growing up in Oxford, but also universal in the tragedy inherent in the endless quest to belong, something that perhaps many of us can recognize in our own stories