Published insaigongarcon·Pinnedportrait of a barista, desiredUnobtainable desire haunts me everyday.Woody Allen5 min readWoody Allen5 min read
Jun 16HOW CAN I FORGET YOU?photography by Annie Chung I haven’t seen 성은 in two years. All this time, I’ve thought about all the ways we would paint together. …Annie Chung5 min readAnnie Chung5 min read
Jun 15art isn’t funny –but we should laugh anyway : on maurizio cattelan Art isn’t serious. What makes it serious is the business behind it. Even the critique of it. I’ve thought of ways how one can write about humor in the art critic-sphere, but it’s a difficult business. Because from my background, art…Maurizio Cattelan4 min readMaurizio Cattelan4 min read
May 19view from my windowmon kim —arcade seoul City buildings. Chrome. Muscular male bodies. Side by side. We’ve seen it all before, but Mon Kim has a particular and consistent aesthetic that continues to surpass his former work with chic sex appeal that captures the very character of gay masc class in Seoul.Mon Kim3 min readMon Kim3 min read
May 17lol you’re not sexy— because you don’t read The Paris Review You never wanted friends, he said, sharply, and then he closed the door of the fridge and he squeezed my arm, the fat underside bit. — Same, Same by Elaine FeeneyThe Paris Review6 min readThe Paris Review6 min read
Dec 29, 2022san francisco,a love letter of many. I was better last night. Some autumns ago in a Chinatown apartment, pinning roaches to death with the end of a plastic broom. Or maybe somewhere in the Outer Richmond with the last hours of light in the day, pressed against my mold-ridden basement apartment…San Francisco4 min readSan Francisco4 min read
Nov 22, 2022aftersunlove-live-tweeting the film without timestamps. feelings in consecutive order: There’s a reason why we pull our phones sees sunsets and sunrises before our own eyes do. An incredible opening where we are asked what we thought we’d be doing from the vantage point of 11 years old. Do you even…Aftersun4 min readAftersun4 min read
Nov 9, 2022ITAEWON –and all the unbearable guilt. Itaewon The Sunday after, the alarm in my phone rung a heaviness that shifted all its aching into my hand. I texted everyone I knew, lives I was unsure were there or not. We take it for granted, this thing called living. Health, too. We…Itaewon Halloween6 min readItaewon Halloween6 min read
Aug 21, 2022on keeping a writing contract —scrap it, leave it, be a body be a verb. Whenever I see an article about a writing contract, I say, scrap a contract. A contract means all business and writing cannot be a business. It is an art. It is a means to bridging yourself to the world. Every…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Aug 4, 2022so i ate shrooms —speech act, killing teens, all about lily chou chou, los angeles i love you. As a teenager, a fantasy always appeared at the front steps of my heartache: a Volkswagen Mk1 GTI slowly pulling into my driveway so that a soft white light would seep through the blinds and flood…LGBTQ8 min readLGBTQ8 min read
