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ByNicole Cliffe

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“From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself“:

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. By now, the person I created in New York was the only one I wanted to be. Over the next two years, I came and left often, pushing the limits of a student visa. I’d make friends but never get close enough to have them ask me anything too deep, playing at being aloof when I was really just shy, and I’d walk past gay bars, turn and walk past again, but never go in. Back home I fell back into church, knowing I didn’t belong there anymore. Once I forgot to code-switch in time and dashed to the bathroom in J.F.K., minutes before my flight to Kingston, to change out of my skinny jeans and hoop earrings. Eight years after reaching the end of myself, I was on borrowed time. Whether it was in a plane or a coffin, I knew I had to get out of Jamaica.

“My Flu” is better than anything a man has ever written:

Anyway, as far as I’m concerned The Fall is a show about Gillian Anderson—as Inspector Stella Gibson—murmuring endlessly.  Something bad happens and she’s like “Mmmmmm.” Something worse happens and she’s like “Mmmmm,” at a lower octave. Once in a while she’ll murmur, “Mmmm, it of-ten occurrrrs to me that men are horrrribullll,” and that’s why everyone loves it.

You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see a show about Stella Gibson’s dry cleaner. In the first scene Stella Gibson’s dry cleaner says to his wife “I got a new customer today, she has ten million silk shirts and they’re always perfect.” The show ends with him retiring early and moving to the Canary Islands.

Thank you:

There’s a reason that some women get their hackles up about their boyfriends being friends with women. That’s because dudes are always cheating. Being cheated on is one of the 26 tolls that you pay when you date men. (The full list is pretty dreadful so I’ll spare you. Let’s just say that G is for Gaslighting and H is for HPV and I is for Infidelity. Yup, it’s going to make an AMAZING children’s book.)

In case you missed Toast Points, Nikki “The Light of Nicole Cliffe’s Eyes and the Joy of Her Heart” Chung is now handling all freelancer payments for The Toast (via a more streamlined system and with our less-grabby contracts!) and she is inviting anyone who did not receive a payment for any work done for us in the past to DROP HER A LINE (nikki at the-toast.net) and say “pay meeeeeee.”

precious lil things NO IT’S REASONABLE I GET IT:

When Nationals reliever Aaron Barrett moved to Atlanta this offseason, his wife didn’t let him lift any boxes. Veteran right-handed reliever Casey Janssen opens cans only with his left hand to avoid cutting his pitching hand. Closer Drew Storen doesn’t like to carry groceries in his right hand, especially if it means his pitching arm will lock in a straight position, nor does he sleep on his right arm.

I demand a return to a time when white men in romantic comedies were expected to be able to tapdance in roller skates (I can’t stop watching.) No more of this “I don’t wanna move out of mom’s house but maaaaaybe for uuuuu” nonsense. Channing represents a return to expecting such men to earn their filmic keep.

Our own Nikki participated in a Fresh Off the Boat roundtable at Slate:

The one line I keep circling back to is “You’re not a good Chinese boy,” and honestly, that is a really loaded line when it’s directed at an adoptee.

She could have just said, “You’re selfish, you’re not a good boy—Eddie is,” dropped the “Chinese” part, and it wouldn’t have stuck with me so much. But many transracial adoptees are already used to not being considered “_____ enough.”

A Self-Care Playlist for the Sensual Woman Smoking Weed in Her Shower

I finally watched the last Hobbit movie and went FUCKING NUTS ON TWITTER:

Nicole is an Editor of The Toast.

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