3rd Culture Kids

Why We Write Fiction?

Barefoot Women

Nov 24 • Rachel

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October 2025

a millennial’s manifesto toward criticism

Everything below is fictional. If it reads too close to real life, well, you’re reading it too closely.

Oct 15 • Rachel

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September 2025

3 things this week | the world in folds

Arc’teryx × Cai Guoqiang Himalayan campaign, Folding Beijing, M Lin’s new book

Sep 25 • Rachel

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Tracing old documents and memories of art behind bars

a miniature case study

Sep 11 • Rachel

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3 things this week | on radical acceptance

reactions to the military parade & two new book recommendations

Sep 3 • Rachel

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August 2025

4 Murmurs this week: The Paradox of Connection

hoarding Labubu, hiding from ChatGPT, Ocean Vuong and a few other hopeful chroniclers

Aug 14 • Rachel

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5 Murmurs This Week | Who Can Be Enlightened?

Shaolin’s fallen monk, vertical drama obsession and learning behind bars

Aug 1 • Rachel

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July 2025

5 Things This Week | Who Gets to Be Punished

A crossdresser’s arrest, a college girl’s expulsion, and why it all connects

Jul 22 • Rachel

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June 2025

one night in Beijing (a short fiction)

Rinse and repeat. Until the next weekend.

Jun 17 • Rachel

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April 2025

Zou Yaqi: Performing the internet, One Viral Project at a Time

Art, Algorithms, and Intimacy in a Generation That Grew Up Online

Apr 30 • Rachel

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woman jabbing another woman

Between a mother and a daughter, between doctors and strangers—what does it mean to be a woman under examination?

Apr 2 • Rachel

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March 2025

what we give in the dark (a short fiction)

the quiet negotiations beneath the sheets

Mar 13 • Rachel

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