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Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

Between Assimilation and Authenticity: On Navigating Discourses Around Asian American Literary Identity

Between Assimilation and Authenticity: On Navigating Discourses Around Asian American Literary Identity

Laura Chow Reeve Considers Her Great Aunt Virginia Lee's Novel, “The House That Tai Ming Built”

By Laura Chow Reeve | March 18, 2024

“My Mother is Chinese and My Father is English...” On Defying Racial and Cultural Classification in Northern California

“My Mother is Chinese and My Father is English...” On Defying Racial and Cultural Classification in Northern California

From Tessa Hulls’s Graphic Memoir, “Feeding Ghosts”

By Tessa Hulls | March 7, 2024

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

“We don’t just need the summary version of the diasporic experience, we need every story.”

By Shayla Lawson | February 26, 2024

The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

Rafael Frumkin Explores the Intersection of Art, Sexuality and Digital Content Creation

By Rafael Frumkin | February 16, 2024

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

Considering the Long Journey Towards Embracing the True Self

By Lucy Sante | February 14, 2024

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James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

Yves Jeffcoat on the Slow Work of Writing That Centers Identity

Yves Jeffcoat on the Slow Work of Writing That Centers Identity

"I am compelled to anatomize my being."

By Yves Jeffcoat | August 25, 2023

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist

Claire Stanford Considers the Answers to Questions of Racial Representation and Identification

By Claire Stanford | August 21, 2023

The Booker Revisited: Notions of the “Fatherland” in Peter Ho Davies’ <em>The Welsh Girl</em>

The Booker Revisited: Notions of the “Fatherland” in Peter Ho Davies’ The Welsh Girl

Lucy Scholes' Rereads More Titles Considered for the Booker Prize

By Lucy Scholes | June 30, 2023

Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 29, 2023

Manuel Betancourt on Navigating Queerness in English and Spanish

Manuel Betancourt on Navigating Queerness in English and Spanish

“In grasping for gay, I found myself caught between the two languages.”

By Manuel Betancourt | June 12, 2023

An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

Omer Aziz on Finding Himself Trapped Between East and West in Jerusalem

By Omer Aziz | April 13, 2023

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