How does Cuba keep up with the Kardashians? I wrote about hard drives & hustling for , with . harpers.org/archive/2017/0
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Kim Wall
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I studied foreign policy & now I write about hackers, hustlers, Vodou, vampires, Chinatowns, atomic bombs, feminism, etc.
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'But how many Chinese youth—even with their vast exposure to the world through their computers and phones—can afford to embrace iconoclasm?'
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Just when you thought the boy-band phenomenon had run its course, China goes and renovates the form—with girls. nyer.cm/UJDr3Tx
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“I don’t care all that much for life.” Chinese kids embrace sang as self-preservation, conforming desire to reality:
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In the wake of Trump's announcement, a look at Cuba's face-to-face gray market for sharing digital content. buff.ly/2sxxVDY
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“China is moving fast, and it needs problem solvers. It’s the current reality that’s created odd creatures like us.”
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’A stand-alone sign summed up the philosophy of the memorial: FAREWELL TO SORROWS SAY HELLO TO TOMORROWS’
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白左/baizuo: "they are the 'ignorant & arrogant westerners' who 'pity the rest of the world & think they are saviors'" opendemocracy.net/digitalibertie
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"I couldn’t bear to stay in the countryside and view the sky from the bottom of the well, so I came to Beijing."
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"And every act from now until the end of term should be a middle finger." My latest, on why the fire rooster is a year of rebellion:
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Asian, queer and dancing defiance: 'Everything we do now is resistance' trib.al/PU1CBpE
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Chinese feminists descended on DC for the #WomensMarch, partly to send a message back home. atfp.co/2k1lazs
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I wrote about Chinese feminists rising up against Donald Trump's misogyny, a.k.a. 'Straight Man Cancer', in D.C #直男癌
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Crowd scientists say women’s march in Washington had 3 times more people than Trump’s inauguration. nyti.ms/2keGn5N
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"There's danger in the beginning. But there will be luck later."
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I wrote about Idi Amin's torture chambers & Uganda's haunted past. (with special thanks to )
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Who Goes Nazi: retro-'fun' from 1941. "It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to."
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❤️ Junot Diaz: "Let’s be real: we always knew this shit wasn’t going to be easy."
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Inte bara arga, vita män röstade på Trump: & jag valvakade med republikanska kvinnor för
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"It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety." newyorker.com/news/news-desk
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"All Hillary has to do is let a man beat her, and she can be loved again."
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"We know black men can grind, but rarely do we see them love."
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on pussy grabbing: "He was fine; I was the one with the problem."
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'It is as if the air you are accustomed to breathing has suddenly decided to try to kill you.' newyorker.com/news/news-desk
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"If what you’re making represents a world utterly out of reach to you, why bother to do it well?" #差不多
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EgyptAir official: “They are shocked and scared now. Radwan is especially scared. The poor guy is always anxious.”
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'a makeshift form of air conditioning known as the Beijing Bikini.' ❤️
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"This summer, when I saw myself in my pink burkini for the first time, it was with the eyes of a Western stranger."
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'That the police are part of an undeclared war against blackness.'
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"When we dehumanize people in conversation, we give permission for them to be degraded in other ways as well."
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I wrote about nationalism, football & everyone's favorite Viking heroes.
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Iceland wins hearts at Euro 2016 as soccer's global underdog
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Feng shui, etiquette guides & dim sum: I wrote about the Chinese characteristics of Shanghai's new Disneyland.
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"Gay bars are therapy for people who can’t afford therapy; temples for people who lost their religion." thenation.com/article/please
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