Here are the Power stories from Gay Mag: buff.ly/3bbgluY "As a sex worker, when you’re told about your exploitation, what they mean is what they read in the news and what they see in the movies. They equate sex work with human trafficking." @kittystryker
"I don’t recall a single thing he taught us. Except that even our teachers weren’t safe. There’s always a teacher for that lesson though." gay.medium.com/what-i-learne… @schaff_sara
"The west mistakenly calls North Korea a communist regime. It is not. He is worshipped as a god, the regime’s official flower is the Kim Jong Ilia." gay.medium.com/mother-land-1… @MarieMyungOkLee
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A thread celebrating @GayTheMagazine and mourning its departure:
"I hate all country clubs, because I hate the WASPs that dine and excurse and pitch-n-putt there. I hate all WASPs, in fact. I hate them because I am one."
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"You can’t help noticing that the “action” at your table is significantly less compared to the author’s, not that you’re keeping count. " buff.ly/2RlxyKl
"I am trying to write a piece that isn’t about how Caleb used to hit me. I am tired of being that woman. I am so much more than that." buff.ly/2xSUXw5
Gay Magazine is ending (we have a few more stories coming next week to finish up). Read about our Power issue here, by @rgay buff.ly/2JEuSn8
"In this Plague Year of Our Capitalist Overlords 2020, however, everyone’s a writer, at least as far as our clothing and our hunched posture go. The scribe look is very now, very in, very today" buff.ly/2yyuc0f
"I try to organize my worries and fears into those that are manageable and those that are too overwhelming. I worry about whether or not I will work again." buff.ly/2RanKTr
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me & @francescakim have been working on this for a while now because taking our time with it felt important. it went live a week or so ago and we’ve decided we wanted to share far and wide - grateful to @rgay for publishing this through the @GayTheMagazine gay.medium.com/im-so-trigger…
This first ma’am was oddly thrilling. To a child raised in the Northeast, being called ma’am felt like an intense compliment. buff.ly/3dSNwW8
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"I don’t recall a single thing he taught us. Except that even our teachers weren’t safe. There’s always a teacher for that lesson though."
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"My father, Bàba 爸爸, is an electrical engineer by training, a precise man who wore neatly pressed suits and silk ties to work for thirty years at a phone company." buff.ly/33UKJHg
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Honored and delighted to have another essay in @GayTheMagazine. Thank you, @rgay and @laura_june for supporting my words. gay.medium.com/the-snack-sha…
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Thank you @rgay and @laura_june for this space for my essay and so many others. So sad that it’s the last issue of Gay Magazine.
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"My father, Bàba 爸爸, is an electrical engineer by training, a precise man who wore neatly pressed suits and silk ties to work for thirty years at a phone company." buff.ly/33UKJHg