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A young Vietnamese man in a white t-shirt and jeans, seen from behind at the foot of a steep pale blue staircase, taking an impossibly long stride that clears four blank steps at once, while a young woman in a yellow dress waits at the top beside a lit doorway, drawn in flat ligne claire style.

A Loanword Rebuilt The trapboy takes the stairs four at a time

Trapboy and trapgirl mean something in Việt Nam they never meant in English - a courtship protocol, a fishing metaphor, and a stamped government form
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A young man stands in the doorway of a quiet apartment living room in early morning light, seen from behind with a backpack on one shoulder, looking back at a couch with a blanket folded into a square on the armrest

The Trärchen Year Two boyfriends and a contract on the kitchen wall

Throuple life in Frankfurt - a three-page relationship contract on the kitchen wall, one very good year, and the slow way it came apart.
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A lone figure stands from behind at a battered doorway set into a broad ochre wall, and through the open door lies not a room but a vast tropical city stretching to the horizon

Desire, Memory, Belonging The shabby door

Attraction is biography, not biology - on desire with a map, orientalism, a war that isn't mine, and the shabby door into a life in Sài Gòn.
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A lone androgynous figure sits from behind on dark coastal rocks at dusk, facing an empty sea as if singing out over the water

Five Nights In Đà Nẵng The one who sang into the ocean

A Tinder match in Đà Nẵng became five unplanned nights - a hot, melancholic story about desire, connection, and wanting different lives.
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Two simplified figures lie close on a bed in a dark hotel room at night, each holding a softly glowing phone, with a small gap of duvet between them, in a flat ligne-claire style

A Sailor's Yarn Fourteen years of almost

A fourteen-year crush across Frankfurt, Munich and Bangkok that never quite landed - a queer love story told as a sailor's yarn, true where it counts.
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A three-storey red-painted adult shop in Sài Gòn at dusk, its facade covered in neon signage and a rainbow banner, seen from across a busy street with tangled power lines overhead

Desire, Legally Speaking Sex is everywhere in Sài Gòn, and officially nowhere

Sex toys sit legal but invisible in Vietnam and loud but dying in Germany - how two countries regulate the same desire in opposite directions.
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The Language Of Neither The neutral pronoun Vietnamese never had (so the community grew one)

Vietnamese forces a gender into every sentence - so how do non-binary and trans people get addressed? A look at the grammar, the slang, and the gaps.
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