Julianna Chen, Author at Lithium Magazine

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Culture & Entertainment

Donna Missal’s Quarantine Creation: Introducing “sex is good (but have you tried)”

I started listening to Donna Missal just over a year ago, after a friend introduced me to her searing 2018 single “Keep Lying.” The song stayed on repeat for weeks.…

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9 min

Culture & Entertainment

Dana Donnelly is Comedy’s Answer to Hot Girl Twitter

The Twitter persona and the comedy performer are closely intertwined entities. Neither version of the self exists without the other—popular Twitter accounts become successful comedians; successful comedians gain traction via…

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9 min

Sex & Love

On Hooking Up When You’ve Never Hooked Up

I did not get laid in high school. I shared a chaste kiss with a guy at summer camp when I was fourteen, and then spent four years living a…

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7 min

Sex & Love

You’re Really Pretty, for An Asian Girl

I’m in the sixth grade when a boy tells me “You would be really pretty if you weren’t Asian.” At twelve years old, he says this with no ill intent,…

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6 min

Culture & Entertainment

How “The Farewell” Helped Me Find My Way Home

“You’ll always have a home in Changchun.” I cried the day I landed in China, big, gasping sobs swallowing me whole in the middle of the Beijing airport. I think…

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4 min

Culture & Entertainment

“Starfish” Paints Exquisite Portrait of Grief

“My name is Aubrey Parker. I broke into my dead friend’s apartment. Who the fuck are you?” ***** Starfish opens on a black screen scored only by the sound of…

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19 min

In Conversation with Isa Mazzei, Writer of Netflix’s “CAM”

An abridged version of this interview will appear in Lithium‘s SEX print issue, set to release in June. Alice Ackerman is very much a normal girl. She has a family,…

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Julianna Chen

Donna Missal’s Quarantine Creation: Introducing “sex is good (but have you tried)”

Dana Donnelly is Comedy’s Answer to Hot Girl Twitter

On Hooking Up When You’ve Never Hooked Up

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