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  • paris is purring | part 1

    paris is purring | part 1

    i wake up feeling like shit. so i decide to do what any other sane faggot would do in my situation: go to a ball***.  (*** By ball I do not mean ballroom, which is a very specific and important scene of black queer culture…

  • seoul bent the knee

    seoul bent the knee

    i can feel it about to rain. is this the korean monsoon season? its really not as bad as that one seoulite from school described it. i thought the train stations would be flooding and walking would be battling through unrelenting sheets of water. i…

  • I don’t look (south) korean

    I don’t look (south) korean

    i don’t look (south) korean. after breezing through customs with only a couple bows and not a single word exchanged, i get my train ticket and takeoff to seoul. there are five people on the train with me, and every one of them has porcelain…

  • stuck in atl | leaving home part 2

    stuck in atl | leaving home part 2

    the first thing i did when i realized all hotel rooms in atlanta were booked out was find a plug. i looked up from an endless screen of sold out motels to a yellow vested guy sat scrolling through his phone. ‘are you from atlanta?’…

  • crowdstrike failure leaves me down atrocious | leaving home part 1

    crowdstrike failure leaves me down atrocious | leaving home part 1

    i wake up at 430am to catch my flight out of Baltimore. The clouds are still shadows in the sky. I hug mommy goodbye at the terminal and watch her drive away through the sliding glass doors.  All the delta counters were down when i…