Archive - The Stew

The power of getting specific

Hyper-specificity is a portal to universality

Jun 11 •

5:22

May 2024

Climbing out of a pit

and there's still a ways to go

May 14, 2024 •

March 2023

Embracing my cringe

Mar 2, 2023 •

August 2022

Taking the aunties for a ride

Aug 7, 2022 •

June 2022

A second, gayer prodigal return

Thirty(-one), dirty, and dying

Jun 1, 2022 •

December 2021

Parasocial Asian American Re-Parenting

(Re-)Raised by TikTok

Dec 13, 2021 •

November 2021

Matsutake gohan

Or an approximation thereof

Nov 17, 2021 •

Alternate title: "The Really Big One"

Nov 8, 2021 •

Spicy Black Sesame Cookies

Spooky season isn't over

Nov 3, 2021 •

October 2021

"As a perfectionist, I..."

On cycles of trauma

Oct 25, 2021 •

Tsujiura senbei shortbread

A fortune cookie by any other name would taste as sweet

Oct 21, 2021 •

An essay on atypical mourning

Oct 18, 2021 •

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