(in the style of “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid) The first step in accepting your femininity is to reject it. Abhor pink. Abhor girls who wear…

When I was thirteen, I had a yearlong correspondence by mail and over the phone with Rodney Bingenheimer. A peculiar icon of the sixties and…

My parents buy me a new twin mattress when I am too old for my toddler’s bed with the guard rail but too young to remember my actual age…

See your friend and fear you are losing her. Petra: two spaghetti-strand arms—loose and familiar—and two carefully pursed lips. Your…

All summer long, we played checkers out on your front porch. The discs clinked under our fingertips, which shone with grease from the potato…

At the premiere screening of Bandit Queen in Delhi, Shekhar Kapur introduced the film with these words: "I had a choice between Truth and…