intimacies
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
About
New
Top
Discussion
things you can't see
Last night, on my way to my friends’ album release party, I was walking and eating a slice of pizza because I didn’t want to get too drunk when I…
Jul 21, 2021
•
larissa pham
67
Share this post
things you can't see
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
November 2020
how it feels
I wanted to write; I couldn’t write. I wanted to write, I couldn’t write, I didn’t want to write, I didn’t write. I didn’t write. Now I am beginning to…
Nov 24, 2020
•
larissa pham
48
1
Share this post
how it feels
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
April 2020
pepper grinder
There’s a metaphor I’m fond of using for when I’m thinking about fate. I think of it as a pepper grinder. You know, the kind where you twist the top. In…
Apr 27, 2020
•
larissa pham
50
Share this post
pepper grinder
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
March 2020
to care
In use today, care has many meanings. To care is to worry, yes, and to fret, but one also cares for a rose garden. One cares for a family member, a…
Mar 17, 2020
•
larissa pham
16
Share this post
to care
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
February 2020
to attempt
I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between theory and praxis. Or the difference between the speech act and what it enacts. Or maybe that is…
Feb 18, 2020
•
larissa pham
41
Share this post
to attempt
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
January 2020
this morning,
when I woke up, not for real but that first, still-drunk awaking that arrives when the light comes in and lasts for about as long as a dream, I saw a…
Jan 2, 2020
•
larissa pham
44
Share this post
this morning,
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
December 2019
permission
I wasn’t always a writer, or I mean, I didn’t always think I’d be one. Whether I thought of myself as someone who writes—that’s different. But I was…
Dec 18, 2019
•
larissa pham
60
Share this post
permission
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
November 2019
gaze aversion
I saw on Twitter—of course I saw on Twitter—that sometimes, when babies are really happy, they get overwhelmed and have to look away. It’s not that they…
Nov 30, 2019
•
larissa pham
8
Share this post
gaze aversion
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
moments of brightness
This time last year I’d gone to Asia twice in the span of less than a month. First to Tokyo with my friend Anna, in one of the most beautiful, dreamlike…
Nov 20, 2019
•
larissa pham
9
Share this post
moments of brightness
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
October 2019
under no formal constraints
intimacies is an occasional newsletter by larissa pham, inspired by the diary letter of the same name. in these letters you’ll hear about what i’m…
Oct 10, 2019
•
larissa pham
2
Share this post
under no formal constraints
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
May 2018
how to prepare a wood panel
The other day, I got into an argument with an ex-boyfriend who I’m friendly with now. We were arguing about whether some displays of suffering deserved…
May 31, 2018
•
larissa pham
1
Share this post
how to prepare a wood panel
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
March 2018
slow magic
If I were to ever teach a writing course, it would be in poetry. I would only teach it in spring and I would call it Slow Magic and I would begin it the…
Mar 13, 2018
•
larissa pham
1
Share this post
slow magic
intimacies.substack.com
Copy link
Linkedin
Facebook
Email
Notes
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts