Tag: reflection
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 14: For Jason
For Valentine’s Day, I’d like to do something different – because today’s outfit isn’t about a theme. It’s about a person. I first met Jason at a hole-in-the-wall Korean place, where we sipped bori-cha, gingerly offered each other bites of japchae and soondubu, and exchanged brief snippets of our career and life histories. I had…
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February Fashion Challenge, Days 11-12: Back To The Future
It’s the second weekend – and the second double fashion feature! Both Saturday and Sunday’s themes pushed me to get creative with interpretation, giving me lots of room to play with different styles before settling on my final outfits. What’s most interesting about these two themes, though, is how they both engage anxieties and anticipation…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 9: Every Outfit Everywhere All At Once
“When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It’s how I’ve learned to survive through everything.” Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Waymond Wang, as my friend Crystal would put it, has big loser energy. At the beginning of Everything Everywhere All…
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February Fashion Challenge, Day 6: Blazin’ hot
“Don’t wear that jacket – only fags would wear something like that.” Years later and I still chafe at those words from my father. Even after I’ve left home, graduated college, and established myself as a professional and an adult, they take me back to 15, when I buried myself in oversized hoodies and tried…
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2022: a reflection
On paper, 2022 is not an year where I accomplished very much. I did not study enough Spanish to become fluent. I basically completely gave up on running. I fell two books short of my 15-book goal on Goodreads. I wrote, like, two blog posts and one poem outside of work. And I discovered that…
Mo Kim 