May 14, 2018After four years of teaching as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (SC&I), as I…
May 8, 2018I was invited to moderate this panel for the Asian American Writers' Workshop at the last minute (a couple days'…
August 23, 2017One week into tapering off Savella, which would not have been possible save for my paranoid hoarding of medicines I'm…
June 4, 2017Access copy of the talk below. "Maybe She Can Be a Feminist & Still Claim Her Opinions?" Vyshali Manivannan, Rutgers…
May 4, 2017I want you to know you're killing me. You always were. It isn’t news. But assume your postures of defense…
April 27, 2017It's the last week of classes, and my course announcements, as usual, have stacked up like this: Hey class, Due…
February 15, 2017Here I was yesterday, in my office, feeling cute, feeling my invisible pain acutely. I'm drafting this today, on my…
February 10, 2017A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
November 11, 2016Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…
August 22, 2016How to work when the pain is so great it slows even time? Indefatigable voice curling around and in on…