Nisa Malli

@nisamalli.bsky.social

Writer, researcher, and policy wonk www.nisamalli.com https://nisamalli.substack.com

I miss the mid 2010s internet when I could post a complaint thread on how new purposebuilt rent in my city is 25% higher than private landlords renting condos and every building offers 2 months off instead of lowering $$ and housing policy wonks/economists would jump into the thread to explain why.

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Last year, the universe sent me a message: it told me to start going to queer raves, and so I did. It’s been a good time! I wrote a retrospective on 2024, the year I discovered that I like dancing, plus reflections on parenting, music, fascism, fashion, and trans joy: okayfail.com/2024/my-year...

My Year of Raves

In my third year of being trans, I discovered that I like dancing. This was a surprise. Dancing is meditative, therapeutic – healing even. Now I try to go dancing as often as I can. This the story of ...

okayfail.com

New essay out on babygirls, babyfication, adhd babies, trauma babies, adulthood, adulting, t-boys, girlhood, hot girl summers, responsibilization and responsibility, conditional whiteness, and why our present moment is more Watership Down than Beatrix Potter: open.substack.com/pub/theimpai...

Don't worry kitten

This week I saw a meme of a ceramic kitten with the caption “abolish ICE” and it felt enragingly emblematic of the current iconography of babyfication: the desire to present as unequivocally innocent ...

open.substack.com

“He spoke in the idiom of today’s New York, with its neighborhoods of more recent arrivals. He went on Subway Takes and passed out sweets for Diwali in Jackson Heights, and showed up at the queer dance party Papi Juice to ask for votes.”

zeldman@zeldman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York.” @theguardian.com @mollycrabapple.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #opinion #nyc #socialism

“Diligent injury prevention doesn’t address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia. The ghost of my adolescent self will always be there, beating me to the ball, unencumbered concepts such as paying for health insurance & Microsoft Teams”@outsidemag.bsky.social www.outsideonline.com/culture/love...

What My Rec League Taught Me About Aging, Ego, and Letting Go

On aging, denial, and the injuries that come from believing you’re still invincible.

outsideonline.com

It’s v apt that a video on how Zygmunt Bauman’s book Liquid Modernity predicted the modern situationship that brought me back to text-based social media but here we go. Because where else can I gripe that actually Bauman predicted the modern situationship in his lesser known sequel Liquid Love?