| My essays have appeared in The Rumpus (2) (3), The New York Times Motherlode blog, NPR‘s Code Switch (2), Salon, the Center for Asian American Media, The Toast, The Millions, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Offing (2), The Margins, Koream, Thought Catalog, Dewclaw, Make Magazine, The Lit Pub, Flash Fiction Chronicles, The Lifted Brow, the Glimmer Train bulletin, the American Short Fiction blog, Necessary Fiction (2), Stymie Mag, ALIST Magazine, Land of Gazillion Adoptees, Korean American Story (2), Hyphen Magazine, Thanh Nien News, The An-Ya Project, Daddy Cool, Everyday Feminism, Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Dads of Disability, and in Where Are You From?, the Thymos Anthology of Asian American Writing.
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For years I wrote a column about my adoption, my Korean wife, our daughter, and our two cats at The Good Men Project. You can read the first essay as a chapbook here as part of the This PDF Chapbook series (Publishing Genius Press).
Contributions to The Good Men Project:
Features (16)
Ouch
The Sensitive Dude’s Guide to Sports
The End of Gender: What Can We Do As New Parents?
A Good Man from the Past: Betrayer or Betrayed?
Pepper Spray and Police Violence: What Do We Explain Freedom to Our Children?
It’s Linsanity
Yellowface in Cloud Atlas
What I Would Like to Tell Adoptive Parents (About Answers): A Letter from an Adoptee
How the Rules of Racisms Are Different for Asian Americans
Goodbye, Radiolab: The Fact of the Matter of Storytelling
Asian American Men and Masculinity: A Conversation
Raising a Daughter in 1950s America, Today
20 Rules for Good (and Healthy) Internet Citizenship
Where Our Voices End and the System Begins
The Place Where We Were
The Powers that Beast: What Is the Adoptee Voice Worth?
How Can Asian America Ever Be Represented in (White) American Media
Love Recorded Column (68)
Bobbing for Kimchi
Boise, Cathreen, and a Circuit Board of Dreams
A Period of Lassitude
Boise the Hunter
History Lesson
Houses We Can’t Afford
For Husbands to Please Their Wives
The World Is as Insane as Ever
Five Trips to the Bunghole and I am the Shit
The Fall of the Year
It’s Nice to See Your Family Waiting at the Door
X-Ray on Fire
I’m Pregnant
Get the Poop
The Numbers of Hummingbirds
Early Risk Assessment
Bear Our Angry Faces
All Around the Womb
The Fragile Vessel
Turning the Corner
How Rare and Momentous
The Missing Itch of Dreams
Getting Ready
Yes, Honey
Full Term
What to Do When the Baby Stops Moving
One Father’s Birth Story
10 Things Every New Father Should Know
What I Have Learned About Babies
A Story Without a Baby, a Near Drowning
What It Means to Be Baptized
Strange Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect the Baby
Early Childhood Education
Best of 2011: My Daughter
25 Ways of Thinking About the Holidays
Don’t Tell Me We Make Our Own Luck
What Korea Means to Me
Beauty for Babies
How (Not) to Sleep Train Your Baby
Say Bye-Bye to Daddy
Once Upon a Time
In the Mouth
The Nature of Time and Babies
Donjanchi Means…
Baby and Cats
Bringing a Baby to a Wedding
Returning to Baby World
How to Tell a True Baby Story
The Reason We Stopped Eating Rice Is Love (and Poison)
Baby Stuff
Voting for Humanity
What Should We Be Thankful For?
Fear in America
I Will Be Alone but Not Alone
The Return of Love
Fear in Watertown
Mother’s Day, not Father’s Day
Father’s Day/Week/Life
Put the Canoe in the Paddle
25 Ways Moving Is as Stressful as Death
Sensory Issues
Give Me My Smartphone or Give Me Death
Halloween Is for White People
Zombie Holiday
A Civilized Christmas
The Ways We Talk, the Ways We Listen
Accident
The Fortune Cookie as Parent |
Matthew Salesses 