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I got stung.
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in DiaryIt doesn’t hurt anymore, though. Good to know I’m not allergic, just feeling stupid and sorry that my fierce little honeybee had to die to teach me a lesson. There is nothing I can do to bring her back, no offering or apology. All I can do is learn from experience. I should not have…
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You can call me Queen Bee.
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in DiaryI’ve wanted this for so long and now I finally did it. I set up a beehive. There were about 15,000 bees and Queen jammed in this traveling box for 1,500 miles. Tired and hungry for days, they were in no mood to be shaken and pounded out, even if it was into a more…
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I’ve lost track of what day it is. Or what time.
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in DiarySome days I am insatiable. I crave sex and sensation to remind myself that I’m alive. Other days I lose myself in the abstract world, the pages of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the chaos of the internet. I forget I am flesh and blood until my head throbs and my stomach rumbles. I suspect you…
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Nature Lover
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in BlogLast summer I had a lovely time over Skype with Padmapani Perez and Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons, hosts of Agam the Climate Podcast. They posted my interview and reading of my piece Power Couple for their Valentine’s Day episode. For Valentine’s Day, listen to @maylingsu read her piece, Power Couple from Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty…
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Love & Sex in the Chinese Year of the Rat
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in BlogIn old Chinese culture, the Rat was considered a symbol of fertility, as well as one of abundance. Let’s see if the Year of the Rat promises a whole lot of love and sex for you. If you don’t already know which of the 12 zodiac animals you belong to, check the wheel below for…
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Slut Stats
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in DiaryIt’s three days before the new year (and the new decade). I was going through my period tracker app, which I also use to log my sexual encounters, and realized that I have been faithfully logging data in it since July of 2010. This is not a new concept. Since the dark ages, the nuns…
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Mothering Nature
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Not gonna lie, I struggled with this year’s Birthday Nude. The entire process was discomforting. I found myself being hypercritical of my aging body. I booted up my images in Lightroom and moved the texture slider all the way to the left to smooth out my spongy middle. I sent the images to Photoshop and…
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Dear Idiot, or Why I Won’t Reply to your Email, PM, DM, Snap, etc.
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in BlogMail time! I’m posting this email because it is the most articulate of many along the same vein of the classic one-liner “Hey.” This one really nails the motivation behind unsolicited dick pics: Hello May Ling, I hope you are well. I know it sounds a unrealistic to imagine that I would actually receive a…
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My Baby Web Whore Pics
Happy birthday, World Wide Web! I still remember the sound my dial up modem made, the raspy cry of a newborn baby web. Little did I know that soon after, a baby web whore would be born: ME! 🍾 Here’s to my first photo shoot, Rainy Girl in NYC, which was shot in film, scanned…