WRITING
Most of my recent writing appears in print in Mildew, Broccoli, Catnip, and Mushroom People. :)
Hemispheres — Sichuan Fairy Tale
”Li Ziqi’s projects are anti-convenience, the opposite of the Instant Pot meals and life hacks the internet celebrates. Her fans tune in to wind down after a long day—ironically, by taking in a glamorized version of labor whose fruits you can actually taste.”
New York Magazine — Upload Your Prayers to the Virgin of Guadalupe
”Does a prayer bouncing up to satellites in space gets just as close to heaven as one offered at the feet of the Virgin?”
The Nation — ‘Roma’ for the People
”Alfonso Cuarón’s new film breathes new life into Mexico’s ‘haunted’ presidential palace.”
Atlas Obscura — Street Musicians Have Turned Mexico City Into One Giant Music Venue
”Before the shutdown began on March 20, the trumpet player says that people would walk right by him while he played. ‘But since the 20th, the people changed—they changed a lot. This has made them more sensitive, more understanding, more generous.’”
Perfect Strangers — A Cultural Outsider Draws Connections Between Festivals of the Dead in Mexico and Japan
"The collective performance of bringing deceased loved ones home once a year, of affirming that they do in some way live on, seems to me deeply cathartic."
Roads & Kingdoms — Waste Not, Want Not: An abandoned elementary school becomes a shrine to the concept of mottainai
"'The day after they eat at Saizen they will have a good, healthy poo.'"
i-D — Akihide Nakachi: Meet the Japanese designer who makes clothes for twinning
"We often think of fashion as being about expressing one’s individuality, but you are (were) here speaks to the tension between wanting to be an individual and wanting to belong to a group."
Lenny Letter — The Love Witch Filmmaker Anna Biller
“I’m a freak, I’m a witch... I’m just a female.”
