Status Updates From Authority: Essays on Being ...

No One Wants It. This is the way I wanted to write about Sarge Lacuesta

Psycho Analysis. Today I found out Bret Easton Ellis is a garden variety Trump-supporter, “centrist” right-winger. And that he sympathizes with Patrick Bateman. Go figure.

China Brain. That was the most adventurous so far. Uhhhh I’m a psych grad so this is 100% supposed to be in my wheelhouse but instead I’m just awed by how far the “experimental” treatment that white psych professionals are allowed can go

Pink. Complicated tryst through the idea of womanhood, transness and feminism. The physical descriptions of the surgery made me feel things. Putting this out in 2019 is truly bold

Bad TV. Long Chu implicitly pushes back on the idea that #Metoo was itself a wave of feminism, by casting it instead as a performance of justice, based on how Hollywood centric it was and how publicly it happened. I didnt like it as a reading experience but it unexpectedly helped me reconcile my own conflicted feelings about #MeToo as a blip of a political moment

On Liking Women. Prescient, challenging, and confrontational. I liked it

The only correct place to start with Chu is reading “on liking women” and I strongly encourage you to find it online and read it immediately. After my 3rd read, I feel that I still have yet to find another piece of writing which so aptly dissects the TERF and the desire to express gender. It precedes her book females which feels like a failed attempt to expound upon what was right in “on liking women.”

Cunt. I’m really impressed with her bravery because I’m pretty sure criticizing Maggie Nelson this hard is inviting the book-world equivalent of Swiftie ire

Finish Him. Here’s someone who reads, writes and actually played The Last of Us. Amazing haha. She actually gets to the heart of TLOU (the video game)’s effectiveness with the Joel-Ellie narrative. Medj similar sila ng observation ni Nakey Jakey

The Opera Ghost. I didn’t have any opinion on Andrew Lloyd Webber before this (except what Lindsay Ellis has discussed for context in her video essays) but this essay was so exact in its dissection that I want to look away from ALW’s skinned froggy corpse

As a Hanya’s Boys enjoyer, I am excited

I’ve spent some time recently reading New York magazine. I’m gay, so I start with the criticism section. I must say, people can be so dull, even in the face of writing for such a prestigious magazine. That is never a crime I’d accuse Chu of. In fact, she might be one of the most interesting living writers.

Excellent prose, but I am too stupid for this right now.

reading nonfiction for me is like going to the gym for the first time in ur life and trying to lift i feel STUPID