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A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic

Clara is an American suffagist who signs onto an expedition to the Antarctic to prove women can do just as well as men.

2024

Stories

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Human Parts

How to Grieve

Some lessons from a Facebook post

4 min readMay 2, 2023

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sunset by the seaside. the light is tangerine and grey. on the left is the ocean, gentle lapping waves. a narrow stretch of dark beach follows to the right, and the, a stretch of beachgrass, light orange and black in the shadows.

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L.A. Times Festival of Books Roundup

Tips from writers in young adult, memoir, and satire

5 min readApr 27, 2023

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L.A. Times Festival of Books Roundup

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Better Humans

Find Your Own Flavor of Activism

I’m a reluctant activist. Here’s how I found something that works for me.

5 min readMar 14, 2023

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Find Your Own Flavor of Activism

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ZORA

The Gilmore Girls’ Inclusivity Problem

It’s okay to love a thing. It’s better to love it when you see all its flaws.

8 min readJan 29, 2023

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An image of the characters Rory Gilmore and her mother, Lorelai Gilmore, from the show “Gilmore Girls.” They are both white women with longish brown hair and blue eyes. Rory on the left is wearing a red coat and her hair pulled back from her forehead. Lorelai is wearing a camel coat and a necklace and has her hair swept back. They are smiling at something to the left off-camera.

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Better Humans

Five Tips for Landing a Book Deal

From micro-press to Big Five, there are more similarities than you think

4 min readNov 21, 2022

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Tabletop with a pair of hands writing in a notebook, a laptop, a few polaroids, a pair of eyeglasses, a stack of books, and a cup of coffee all artfully arranged. no workspace ever looked like this, but whatever.

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Human Parts

How to Pull Off a Personal Annual Review

A no-fuss, intuitive way to take stock and map your priorities

4 min readNov 9, 2022

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shadow of a hand holding up a sparkler against a dark grey or indigo sky

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Say This, Not That.

Sometimes, we say things that are hurtful. Here’s what to say instead.

2 min readJun 10, 2022

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Say This, Not That.

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Friendship on the Playing Field

“Meeting someone where they are” isn’t just a buzzphrase

4 min readMay 6, 2022

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Video-game avatars of Courtney and Yi Shun standing in front of a futuristic-looking machine in a field of grass with a road behind them. There is a grey lurking building in the far background and the sky is threatening.

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Human Parts

They Told Us the Only Thing That Matters Is Being Number One

I know better now

3 min readApr 24, 2022

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seedling growing from a bed of dirt in a sardine can

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A Little Constriction Can Set You Free

Abandoning my normal tools gave me a new appreciation for my skills.

3 min readApr 17, 2022

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watercolor painting of a blue-skinned mermaid on agenda paper over a sticker from “baology,” a restaurant in Philadelphia.

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Yi Shun Lai

Yi Shun Lai

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Author: A SUFFRAGISTS’S GUIDE TO THE ANTARCTIC (2024), Pin Ups (2020). Former columnist, The Writer. theGooddirt.org Psst: Say “yeeshun.” You can do it!

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