#k-ming chang

[geryone]

Past Lives, Future Bodies, K-Ming Chang

[b-plot-butch]

Sons are alive and daughters are given life, conditionally. Before their own daughters are born, they are told: If you have a daughter, don’t worry, that’s a good thing, despite what most people say. At least you’ll have someone to take care of you when you’re old. They’re not totally worthless.

You will want to respond: But she hasn’t even been born yet! I haven’t even wiped the shit from her ass or shown her how to eat fish with bones! And you’ve indebted her to me? When she hasn’t even gotten the chance to grow a single bone of her own? You’ve separated her from her life already, before I’ve gotten the chance to stitch it to the inside of her skin? Should I dismantle her now and give her out in pieces, divvying up her liver and bartering her bladder? Would that satisfy you? If instead of opening her mouth for milk, she grew udders for you to juice? Being bred means you are expected to serve a purpose, a specific usage, even before you are named or held or happened. You display certain desirable traits, are funneled into a particular future. You have been summoned to feed others before you are fed. Remember and remember: You were bred to prioritize other lives. In contemporary language, you are an insurance policy.

Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

[gennsoup]

My mother always says that the story you believe depends on the body you're in. What you believe will depend on the color of your hair, your word for god, how many times you've been born, your zip code, whether you have health insurance, what your first language is, and how many snakes you have known personally.

K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2026 Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic by Jessica Lewis (July 7th) Hallie loves romance, but it doesn’t seem to love her back.... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/11/most-anticipated-lgbtq-young-adult-fiction-july-december-2026/

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: July-December 2026

[pamplemousse666]

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[valeriareads]

[antigonies]

Here is my lung’s list of needs:               how to hold water                                                            like a woman & not drown. I want men to stop writing &                            become mothers. I promise this                                                            is the last time I call my mother to hear her voice beside mine.

“Closet space” ,  K-Ming Chang

[hungryblueghost]

once when you were little, I said you could love your father or your mother but you had to pick one the one you love is your leash the other is a house you burn down

—K-Ming Chang, Bestiary