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Stefanie Kalem / August 16, 2021

All Your Favorite Music Is (Probably) Problematic

I had a great time dissecting the candy-wrapped poison of a whole bunch of pop hits with Mark Montgomery French on his podcast! Check it out if you are into duets that make the female singer into the backup vocalist, pu-pu platters of offensive material, "the mysterious orient," and dripping, creeping malice. …

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Stefanie Kalem / May 13, 2021

Too much/not enough god

Most people that I know in California — where I have lived since 2001 — think that I am from Florida. It is understandable. I moved to Oakland from Tampa, where I had gone to college and then begun my professional writing career. I have been known to go to bat for that much-maligned foreleg of a territory: I chose it, after all, and though I did so haphazardly at first (it's warm, my sister was there, and my grades were shitty so I went to a university …

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Stefanie Kalem / December 31, 2020

Congratulations, 2020

Like most people, I am far more haunted by my failures than I am buoyed by my triumphs. The last month of the year is particularly hard for me in this respect — I usually spend the month of December in a sticky spiral of "what-ifs" and "I didn'ts," briefly blasted out by the light of holiday celebrations and culminating in a dark slide into a a hedonistic New Year's Eve. I wake up on January 1, my body and brain battered, and feel hopeful once more. But …

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