Off the Record
Personal narratives and essays.
Against nostalgia
Remembering the Bay Area’s radical Iranian students
In late January, I attended a solidarity demonstration on campus for those experiencing state repression in Iran.
The bottle and the beetle
An elegy for my living father
My senior year of college has been beset by a strange decision paralysis, bound between fulfilling my parents’ wish that I strike out independently and my more fundamental duty to ensure my dad has a peaceful old age.
Subhuman: Why devaluing men devalues us
Before my first meaningful sexual encounter with a boy, I called one of my best friends across the country.
World of mouth
When I imagine America, all 50 of its united states, I can never manage to fit it into my mouth.
I used ChatGPT to resurrect my dead dad
Part of me was hoping that my dead father might hijack the technology and speak to me through artificial intelligence like the stories I’d read on the medium subreddit.
