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Helena Gabrielle Ong

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New York, San Francisco
As seen in: The New Yorker, Saveur, Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia Daily Spectator, San Francisco Public Press, Prism, Full Stop, The Student Life, The Blue and White
Covers:  Books, culture, relationships
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An Abortion Hidden from Parental View in "Memoir of a Veering Storm"

An Abortion Hidden from Parental View in "Memoir of a Veering Storm"

A deer runs by, passing in and out of view a few times before everything becomes a blur. The image takes a mo…

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Nothing Says 'Asian American '90s Kid' Like a Bottle of Yakult

Nothing Says 'Asian American '90s Kid' Like a Bottle of Yakult

Culture Tangy, fruity, and subtly sweet, the Japanese probiotic was an AAPI staple in the 1990s-so why did it…

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That Monster Which Prevaileth: On Andrew Joseph White's "Hell Followed with Us" - Los Angeles Rev...

That Monster Which Prevaileth: On Andrew Joseph White's "Hell Followed with Us" - Los Angeles Rev...

"[ A] MONSTER IS not such a terrible thing to be. [...] To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthous…

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Educational center anchors San Francisco's Filipino community

Educational center anchors San Francisco's Filipino community

In San Francisco, the Filipino cultural heritage district is celebrating its sixth year of recognition. Locat…

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In "House Fires," Connor Franta reckons with loneliness - The Tempest

In "House Fires," Connor Franta reckons with loneliness - The Tempest

Loneliness, as many of us have learned in the past year of the pandemic, can be jarring. T.S. Eliot describes…

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In "Six Crimson Cranes," tradition and transformation come together

In "Six Crimson Cranes," tradition and transformation come together

Fairytales are deceiving. We think we know what we're getting ourselves into: there is a beautiful princess, …

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Auroville: A City of Dreams – Katarzyna Boni

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By Helena Gabrielle Ong Verified
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[Open Letter Books; 2026] Tr. from the Polish by Mark Ordon The utopia is defined as an idealized, perfect world; and even at the roots, it proclaims impossibility. The word straddles the Greek eu-topos meaning “good place” and, in the same breath, ou-topos or “nowhere.” Coined in Thomas More’s 1516 titular novel, a utopia is primarily characterized by harmonious communal living.
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Coming Out Like a Porn Star - ed. Jiz Lee

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By Helena Gabrielle Ong Verified
| Full Stop Verified
[Feminist Press; 2024] “Sex sells” but no one understands the labor that goes into that sentiment better than workers in the sex industry themselves. Pornography is perhaps the most well-known form of sex work. More than have seen pornographic material in their lifetime, myself included.
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An Abortion Hidden from Parental View in “Memoir of a Veering Storm”

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By Helena Gabrielle Ong Verified, Sofia Georgovassili
| The New Yorker Verified
The film follows fifteen-year-old Anna on what looks to be a normal morning in a leafy city, somewhere in Greece. Her mother drops her off at school. She walks into the building, through a corridor and across an empty basketball court—then jumps the fence, escaping the halls of adolescence. She continues on, determined. Accompanied by her boyfriend and a friend, she heads for an abortion clinic.
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