AFWKLY Archive

"You don't have a will?!" January 23, 2026 It's not (just) about how you're going to die, it's about who you love and what you value. Plus: Readers respond.

"You don't have a will?!"
January 23, 2026
It's not (just) about how you're going to die, it's about who you love and what you value. Plus: Readers respond.

Let's party, future ancestors! October 31, 2025 We can confront the horrors of this world while also celebrating the fact that we are alive and able to put on a wig, some antennae, and spill forth into the night.

Let's party, future ancestors!
October 31, 2025
We can confront the horrors of this world while also celebrating the fact that we are alive and able to put on a wig, some antennae, and spill forth into the night.

FAQ about your Friend* October 10, 2025 Imagine that human-to-human friendship had the marketing budget that AI startups do.

FAQ about your Friend*
October 10, 2025
Imagine that human-to-human friendship had the marketing budget that AI startups do.

What a time for a vocational crisis September 26, 2025 Not just a professional dilemma, but a crisis that befalls people who have aligned their work with their art or their beliefs, and have grown weary of maintaining that alignment.

What a time for a vocational crisis
September 26, 2025
Not just a professional dilemma, but a crisis that befalls people who have aligned their work with their art or their beliefs, and have grown weary of maintaining that alignment.

Turns out I'm a romantic August 22, 2025 I am bored with critiques that end after naming “late-stage capitalism” as the villain, Give me ambitious visions of other ways of living! Romance me!

Turns out I'm a romantic
August 22, 2025
I am bored with critiques that end after naming “late-stage capitalism” as the villain, Give me ambitious visions of other ways of living! Romance me!

The perks of being an in-law August 15, 2025 Join me in considering the unique anthropological opportunity this relationship presents.

The perks of being an in-law
August 15, 2025
Join me in considering the unique anthropological opportunity this relationship presents.

The optimism of borrowed nostalgia August 01, 2025 The very act of cherry-picking from the past signals a set of desires for the future.

The optimism of borrowed nostalgia
August 01, 2025
The very act of cherry-picking from the past signals a set of desires for the future.

In praise of the private meme June 27, 2025 I'm talking about a joke you tell only to yourself. Something that you think about in specific situations, its meaning fully understood by you and you alone?

In praise of the private meme
June 27, 2025
I'm talking about a joke you tell only to yourself. Something that you think about in specific situations, its meaning fully understood by you and you alone?

She doesn't even go here! June 13, 2025 A short glossary of the rhetorical flips undertaken by the architects of fear and violence who are raiding this city and others.

She doesn't even go here!
June 13, 2025
A short glossary of the rhetorical flips undertaken by the architects of fear and violence who are raiding this city and others.

Holy books May 23, 2025 As a kid, the library was special because it allowed me to slip into other worlds. Now it keeps me tethered to what's good about this one.

Holy books
May 23, 2025
As a kid, the library was special because it allowed me to slip into other worlds. Now it keeps me tethered to what's good about this one.