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Lisa Kholostenko's avatar

Your footnotes = Nicki's features (except the essay is excellent too).

"It always felt like, even at her height, she was a small woman with something huge moving through her." A BAR (I am so sorry to keep going with these metaphors).

Mike P's avatar

Truly brilliant. One of my favorite pieces you've done yet.

Sushmitha's avatar

“I will die a Barb. It’s sad, but it’s not up to me. It’s an incurable condition.”

Honestly hard same. 💔And please pray extra hard for me because I love all her songs with Drake (I got that kinda… wait wait fixate!)

Jon Berman's avatar

As a fellow recovering Barb you deserve a MacArthur Genius grant for this 💓

Jendi's avatar

My anaconda don't want none if you vote Trump, hun.

tofu's avatar

This piece has me stunned. Thank you for your service 🫡