“This publication’s title comes from the nomination that my dear friend Joyce and I have given to our time together. Could use a sanity fair, we will say, a catch-all for my mental breakdown is imminent and I need updates and your presence sustains me through life’s disarray. In repurposing this tender, intimate thing for public consumption, I want this digital space to foster connection too.”

“My long-held conviction is that fiction, as craft, has the potential to reveal truths which remain illegible in testimonial; so to my mind, that CX 889 deals in emulation instead of documentation is precisely the point.”

“If, as Hong argues, the unprotected consciousness knows America’s capacity for violence even before literacy, then it follows that the racialized subject is never without racial cognition—it may be concealed for reasons of safety or repressed under the dictates of an inherently racist alphabet, but it is ever-present.”

“What I saw as a gracious gesture prompted a different response from my supervisor, a slight unbeknown to its offender, an offhand remark at once jarring and familiar: he likes pretty Asian girls.”