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Art is just people doing things
How sharing air with creators reminds us that great things are both hard to make, and worth making
Sep 15
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Casey Juanxi Li
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Please tread on me
The Canadian literature scene's love of "diversity" looks more like a thinly veiled fetish for reassurance - that immigrants will remain quiet, and…
Sep 4
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Casey Juanxi Li
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August 2025
Floristry as architecture
An inquiry into why I am so misogynist about so-called feminine "arts and crafts"
Aug 28
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Casey Juanxi Li
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When 'intellect' is a coping mechanism
And why it's extra upsetting when self-professed 'nerds' are actually just...arrogant jerks
Aug 18
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Casey Juanxi Li
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Plant matter(s)
Please leaf a comment
Aug 14
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Casey Juanxi Li
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What AI cat videos and Russian novels have in common
A strange backdrop - foreign in time, place, and character - sharpens our focus onto the familiar
Aug 5
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Casey Juanxi Li
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July 2025
What Dostoevsky and Rand have in common
The surprising parallels between our two favourite Russian-born crazies
Jul 29
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Casey Juanxi Li
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Framing feedback: why intention matters more than facts
Lessons from a YouTube video about a $10 ALDI seafood boil
Jul 21
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Casey Juanxi Li
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Why art is the loneliest way to connect
The dishonesty of yearning for connection, but going about it in this roundabout fashion
Jul 13
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Casey Juanxi Li
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Jason Statham movies are just romance novels in disguise
The pornography of justice, the pornography of competence
Jul 6
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Casey Juanxi Li
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May 2025
Love you to death
"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado is hailed as a feminist masterpiece. I worry that it's an excruciating account of an abusive relationship
May 21
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Casey Juanxi Li
Why does a show like that exist?
Reality TV and Dostoyevksy appeal to our same base desires for indecency and schadenfreude - but also for truth
May 3
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Casey Juanxi Li
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