The Wasteland

A meditation on grief in the digital age, exploring how hospital portals, calendar reminders, and social media memories turn loss into something…

Feb 18 • TheStooopKid

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Minstrels: America’s Longest-Running Media System

From blackface to AI, this essay traces how American media has shaped, exploited, and constrained Blackness across history and technology.

Feb 11 • TheStooopKid

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It's Okay Pookie, Daddy's Got Carbon Credits

the hole in the ozone might be healing but your lungs and the ocean aren't

Feb 5 • Nirdishtha

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January 2026

The Distance Between Two Pictures

A conversation with a woman in Iran about what lives in the space between a selfie and a body bag.

Jan 26 • TheStooopKid

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You Get a Car (And Everything Else Gets Decided)

Fatalism, revisionist history, and the stories decided before they finish happening

Jan 21 • TheStooopKid

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Barry F#$%@*G Lyndon

When the Algorithm is the Narrator

Jan 14 • TheStooopKid

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Who Gets to Decide What’s Real?

Authority, belonging, and manufactured reality

Jan 4 • TheStooopKid

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December 2025

What I Was Really Writing About This Year

Essays on hip-hop, family, power, and the machines that decide who belongs.

Dec 24, 2025 • TheStooopKid

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The House that Love Built: Part II

The Price of Staying Put

Dec 11, 2025 • TheStooopKid

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The Portrait in Your Pocket

How We Curate Ourselves Into Dynasties

Dec 10, 2025 • TheStooopKid

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November 2025

The House That Love Built

The True Cost of Belonging in America

Nov 12, 2025 • TheStooopKid

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October 2025

“They Waste Us”

Wasted talent as a social failure, not a personal one

Oct 29, 2025 • TheStooopKid

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