More welcome than you know, less important than you think.
On letting down your community and realizing that all of you will be okay.
I remember the first time I read Yining Chiu, on a lunch break, in the summer of 2022. I was on an unsteady lawn chair in the backyard with an iced coffee, reading her essay “Like & Subscribe for a Chance at Eternal Life.” I was reading it slowly, and my mind was twisting around her ideas about social media, self-mythologizing, Hillsong and Zadie Smith…
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