Tag: Substack

Raya* and I had been friends for nearly a decade when she asked me to get the Suddenly Slimmer treatment with her. When she and I first met, I immediately disliked her because she was so often ridiculous. But it was her relentless spirit that won me over in the

Hi, I’m Giyen Kim. It’s a highly problematic name. Not quite Korean. Definitely not American. No one gets it. My birth name was supposed to have been Jiyeon or Ji-yun, which the internet tells me was the seventh-most popular girl’s name in South Korea in 1980. I tried to figure