Playing pretend
When disinformation and propaganda are everywhere, it feels all the more important to remind myself what fiction can be
Personal Essay
A love letter to the rhythm game communities that helped me find myself
It was in the arcade around DDR machines that I first met people like me — kids picked on for being "weirdos," for being neurodivergent, for being queer.
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