When Things Fall Apart
When I want to conjure the image of my mother, I think first of her closet. The walk-in wardrobe at...
Prose
A Love Letter to My Father
When he was out running errands or working in his study, bent over a book or teaching the students who...
The Deformed Thief, Fashion
‘They’ decide everything. ‘They’ know whether it is to be pink or green this fall, whether it's to be short...
Old Teen
Threva Throneberry pretended for over a decade to be fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen. She presented herself as a fresh-faced, pigtailed...
The Clothes You Could Have Worn, The Lives You Could Have Lived
It is hard not to feel that for all its personal entangling, clothing is a social skin that is outside...
Layer After Layer of Loving Devotion
My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many...
How You Should Dress
Once, in early summer, after work I went to a house party where I did not know anyone very well....
Perfume Ladies
In comes the occasional man, too. But usually, there are just all these girls who all buy a bottle of...
Golden Girls: How South Asian Women Preserve Legacy Through Gold
Solid gold bangles, intricate tikkas encrusted in jewels, magnificent chokers covering the entirety of a woman’s neck — all of...
Expecting
It’s been a year since my first miscarriage, and the summer sales have returned. I buy a loose kaftan, I...
Blue Polyester Hug
Giving my grandfather a hug, even as an adult, was something I did almost every time we visited him for...
Beggars And Choosers
Carlo is concerned about his looks; it’s important to him how his ‘outer shell’ – his coat – appears. Decent...