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Decentering Men Doesn't Mean u h8 Them
One of the funniest things to happen to me last year was someone commenting that my videos made them hate men less.
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Apr 4, 2024


IT’S SO EASY TO EMBARRASS YOURSELF
Obscurity is a skill I’ve learned to both master and abuse in my time as a writer. It was born out of antipathy, necessity, chagrin.
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Mar 28, 2024




S.1 Ep.1: Love, Duh.
In an effort to lay lush groundwork for this column, I’d like to start with love.
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Mar 11, 2024


S.1 EP. Pilot: Welcome to Wayward Wonderland
by Victoria To whom it may concern, Most basically, this column will serve as a depiction of present day, wayward lives just like yours...
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Mar 6, 2024


Aren't We All Just Reflections?
A quick note from Hailo: Last but not least is Nwakaego. I met her digitally through book club. She participated in a few and every week...
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Mar 1, 2024


Hot Literati @ TLC Anti-Circumcision Event
I, Hailo, was at The Whitney when I got a text from Blake Parker telling me to come to this event because they the only Black person...
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Mar 1, 2024


Club Penguin Existential Crisis
A quick note from Hailo Now you all are going to meet Ananya. I was honestly done with the process of picking writers, but she reached...
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Feb 28, 2024


Auctioned Sentience
A quick note from Hailo: Now you all are going to meet the last three remote literatis who are not in New York. We met over a video call...
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Feb 23, 2024


The Most Interesting Man in Tile Bar
A quick note from Hailo: I knew Anderson was a good fit for Hot Literati this year because of his artistic ego. He knows that he's good....
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Feb 18, 2024


Indie Sleaze Reprisal
A quick note from Hailo: I met two of the Hot Literati ‘24 writers at a show my mate put on for the debut of their EP. I was a little...
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Feb 11, 2024






I <3 my computer, I don't want (it) to die
Do you think your computer is afraid to die?
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Nov 8, 2023


I don't want to write anymore
Today, I woke up pretty sad. I miss my family so much and the monotony of the real world is beginning to feel suffocating. Especially the...
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Aug 21, 2023


I don't want to write anymore (revisited)
Today, I was walking around with an ice cream cone and listening to music and looking around at people and thinking. Yes, this system...
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Aug 21, 2023


Mr. Vonnegut (& me)
I wasn’t allowed to date until I was sixteen. My parents made that very clear starting very young. You know what they say about forbidden...
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Aug 16, 2023


You shouldn't necessarily be Afraid of Dying
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. I sat at my desk thinking about the first time I missed my mother’s birthday. I was fourteen. I was...
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Aug 3, 2023


How to Live a Real Life
There’s this study that’s cited in a ton of places — two of which I can remember are the Psychology of your 20s podcast and then Jean...
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Jun 22, 2023


A little Chocolate before the Big Sleep
There’s a part in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where the protagonist looks in the mirror. Right after he had the opportunity...
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Jun 12, 2023
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