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You Are *So* Valid!
The personal is sometimes hypocritical
Apr 5 • Rafael Frumkin
Journeying In Place
A journey of a thousand interventions begins with but a single broken self
Mar 18 • Rafael Frumkin
Memoir, Mania & Truth After Pharmaceuticals
Trained by diagnoses to fear our own minds, do we risk losing knowledge of ourselves?
Mar 9 • Rafael Frumkin and Jeannie Vanasco
The Phobes
We feared them. And then we feared we were them.
Mar 2 • Rafael Frumkin
We Could All Be Laughing
It seems a waste of breath, not to laugh
Feb 22 • Rafael Frumkin
Just One of the (Pretty) (Gay) Boys
Heated Rivalry, A Little Life, and gays for the female gaze
Feb 17 • Rafael Frumkin
Hamnet: Monomania: Catharsis
We want art and we want freedom and we will have both
Feb 8 • Rafael Frumkin
The Face of the Enemy Is Your Own
World as mirror and teacher
Feb 2 • Rafael Frumkin
The Scent of Time
You can't estrange yourself from your past
Jan 23 • Rafael Frumkin
Seizing the Means of Seduction
On the female alienation novel
Jan 12 • Rafael Frumkin
Against Hotness
No shot of Ozempic nor deep-plane facelift can save me now
Jan 6 • Rafael Frumkin
I Was a Millennial White Man
A confessional personal essay
Dec 23, 2025 • Rafael Frumkin
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