Kian Razi
@kianrazi.bsky.social
Iranian-American Writer, Memoir Aficionado, Dream Chronicler, Shadow Integrator, Candidate for Intelligent Life on Earth
Just published the fifth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Twelve Saturdays of Terror” — A stutterer on a mountain, a Walkman salvation, a father’s ultimatum, and twelve Saturdays learning how to disappear without being missed.
Read it on Medium ↓
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“Twelve Saturdays of Terror” — A stutterer on a mountain, a Walkman salvation, a father’s ultimatum, and twelve Saturdays learning how to disappear without being missed.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
Twelve Saturdays of Terror
Excerpted from my memoir, Your Dad Is a Dog, a work about exile, inheritance, and self-reinvention. These serialized fragments offer…
medium.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just published the fifth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Twelve Saturdays of Terror” — A stutterer on a mountain, a Walkman salvation, a father’s ultimatum, and twelve Saturdays learning how to disappear without being missed.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
“Twelve Saturdays of Terror” — A stutterer on a mountain, a Walkman salvation, a father’s ultimatum, and twelve Saturdays learning how to disappear without being missed.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
Just published the fourth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“How I Learned to Take What Wasn't Given” — a missing mother, a newborn brother, neon arcades, a father's ransom check, and the kid I became when the adults disappeared.
Read it on Medium ↓
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“How I Learned to Take What Wasn't Given” — a missing mother, a newborn brother, neon arcades, a father's ransom check, and the kid I became when the adults disappeared.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/h...
How I Learned to Take What Wasn’t Given
Excerpted from my memoir, Your Dad Is a Dog, a work about exile, inheritance, and self-reinvention. These serialized fragments offer…
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just published the fourth excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“How I Learned to Take What Wasn't Given” — a missing mother, a newborn brother, neon arcades, a father's ransom check, and the kid I became when the adults disappeared.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/h...
“How I Learned to Take What Wasn't Given” — a missing mother, a newborn brother, neon arcades, a father's ransom check, and the kid I became when the adults disappeared.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/h...
Just published the third excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World” — Nylon nut-huggers, prayers for deliverance, a dying dog, and the crack of a shovel that split open my concept of manhood.
Read it on Medium ↓
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“The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World” — Nylon nut-huggers, prayers for deliverance, a dying dog, and the crack of a shovel that split open my concept of manhood.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World
Excerpted from my memoir, Your Dad Is a Dog, a work about exile, inheritance, and self-reinvention. These serialized fragments offer…
medium.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just published the third excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World” — Nylon nut-huggers, prayers for deliverance, a dying dog, and the crack of a shovel that split open my concept of manhood.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
“The Day My Father Tried to Kill the World” — Nylon nut-huggers, prayers for deliverance, a dying dog, and the crack of a shovel that split open my concept of manhood.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
Just published the second excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Language of Silence” — a childhood stitched from broken syllables, absolution for being Iranian, a prayer dress turned ghost, and a father unleashing five thousand years of Persian wrath.
Read it on Medium ↓
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“The Language of Silence” — a childhood stitched from broken syllables, absolution for being Iranian, a prayer dress turned ghost, and a father unleashing five thousand years of Persian wrath.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
The Language of Silence
Excerpted from my memoir, Your Dad Is a Dog, a work about exile, inheritance, and self-reinvention. These serialized fragments offer…
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just published the second excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“The Language of Silence” — a childhood stitched from broken syllables, absolution for being Iranian, a prayer dress turned ghost, and a father unleashing five thousand years of Persian wrath.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
“The Language of Silence” — a childhood stitched from broken syllables, absolution for being Iranian, a prayer dress turned ghost, and a father unleashing five thousand years of Persian wrath.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/t...
Just published the first excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Born There, Made Here” — a homecoming dragged through shadow: a familiar stranger behind the wheel, an aging father, and the dead that refuse to lie still.
Read it on Medium ↓
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“Born There, Made Here” — a homecoming dragged through shadow: a familiar stranger behind the wheel, an aging father, and the dead that refuse to lie still.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
Born There, Made Here
Excerpted from my memoir, Your Dad Is a Dog, a work about exile, inheritance, and self-reinvention. These serialized fragments offer…
medium.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just published the first excerpt from Your Dad Is a Dog.
“Born There, Made Here” — a homecoming dragged through shadow: a familiar stranger behind the wheel, an aging father, and the dead that refuse to lie still.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
“Born There, Made Here” — a homecoming dragged through shadow: a familiar stranger behind the wheel, an aging father, and the dead that refuse to lie still.
Read it on Medium ↓
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
I’m now on Medium, serializing my memoir Your Dad Is a Dog—a darkly funny, brutally honest exploration of exile, identity, and survival. Start with “Between Worlds,” a glimpse into the life that shaped the book. New fragments every Tuesday, in non-chronological order.
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Between Worlds: Rebuilding Myself Through Language, Art, and Psychedelics
A story of exile and the alchemy of becoming whole
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November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’m now on Medium, serializing my memoir Your Dad Is a Dog—a darkly funny, brutally honest exploration of exile, identity, and survival. Start with “Between Worlds,” a glimpse into the life that shaped the book. New fragments every Tuesday, in non-chronological order.
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
medium.com/@kian.razi/b...
“We cannot move into a reality we cannot describe. As long as we let the establishment set the language agenda, we will be imprisoned in the tiny, pedestrian world of consumerism and schlocky values that the establishment has prepared for us. Instead, create your own roadshow.” - Terence McKenna
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“We cannot move into a reality we cannot describe. As long as we let the establishment set the language agenda, we will be imprisoned in the tiny, pedestrian world of consumerism and schlocky values that the establishment has prepared for us. Instead, create your own roadshow.” - Terence McKenna
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - J.B.S. Haldane
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." - J.B.S. Haldane
In the final analysis, only one quote truly matters—may it serve as our guiding light for the years ahead:
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In the final analysis, only one quote truly matters—may it serve as our guiding light for the years ahead:
Life is full of the unexpected and, often, the heartbreaking. It’s a cliché because it’s true: this world desperately needs more love, patience, and understanding. Chasing your dreams won’t heal the emptiness of living solely for others' recognition. Look within; all of humanity depends on it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Life is full of the unexpected and, often, the heartbreaking. It’s a cliché because it’s true: this world desperately needs more love, patience, and understanding. Chasing your dreams won’t heal the emptiness of living solely for others' recognition. Look within; all of humanity depends on it.
“You don’t replace rainforests with pastures. You don’t censor books. You don’t lean on people who make gender choices different from yours. The purpose of being human is to complexify reality even more. To hand on a more diverse, complicated, multiphasic universe to our children.” - Terence McKenna
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“You don’t replace rainforests with pastures. You don’t censor books. You don’t lean on people who make gender choices different from yours. The purpose of being human is to complexify reality even more. To hand on a more diverse, complicated, multiphasic universe to our children.” - Terence McKenna
I sometimes wonder what Beethoven would think if he knew his 9th played in a series of beeps when I shut off my dryer. Would he call it a brilliant commentary on civilization's decline, or would he shrug and say: “Well, at least someone is still using my music to signal the end of something.”?
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I sometimes wonder what Beethoven would think if he knew his 9th played in a series of beeps when I shut off my dryer. Would he call it a brilliant commentary on civilization's decline, or would he shrug and say: “Well, at least someone is still using my music to signal the end of something.”?
In a world that often feels consumed by destruction, heartache, and the unjust triumphs of the worst among us, please hold onto this: you are loved. Your presence matters. Your optimism is a guiding light, essential to the moral fabric of humanity. Your heart is a quiet revolution.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In a world that often feels consumed by destruction, heartache, and the unjust triumphs of the worst among us, please hold onto this: you are loved. Your presence matters. Your optimism is a guiding light, essential to the moral fabric of humanity. Your heart is a quiet revolution.
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self" - Aldous Huxley
Writing a book involves tapping into the unconscious, laying bare the hidden parts of yourself, gaining self-awareness, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
Writing a book involves tapping into the unconscious, laying bare the hidden parts of yourself, gaining self-awareness, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self" - Aldous Huxley
Writing a book involves tapping into the unconscious, laying bare the hidden parts of yourself, gaining self-awareness, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
Writing a book involves tapping into the unconscious, laying bare the hidden parts of yourself, gaining self-awareness, and creating something greater than the sum of its parts.
Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
Fantastic Four fans slam 'woke' trailer as actress plays Silver Surfer
Marvel fans were in an uproar after the first trailer for Fantastic Four reboot dropped Thursday-unleashing a wave of backlash over what some are calling a 'woke' twist on the iconic Silver Surfer.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Some guys treat fictional women with cosmic powers like a personal attack, while the real-world oppression of women gets less outrage than a casting decision. Proof that nothing threatens fragile masculinity like a woman who doesn’t need saving.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas." - Bill Hicks
Don’t let the regime silence the individual. In times of change, the collective can overshadow personal freedom, but our individuality drives progress, creativity, and the courage to challenge what's wrong.
Don’t let the regime silence the individual. In times of change, the collective can overshadow personal freedom, but our individuality drives progress, creativity, and the courage to challenge what's wrong.
April 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas." - Bill Hicks
Don’t let the regime silence the individual. In times of change, the collective can overshadow personal freedom, but our individuality drives progress, creativity, and the courage to challenge what's wrong.
Don’t let the regime silence the individual. In times of change, the collective can overshadow personal freedom, but our individuality drives progress, creativity, and the courage to challenge what's wrong.
Trusk (noun): A bloated, megalomaniacal wrecking ball of greed and delusion—part washed-up demagogue, part insufferable techbro—hell-bent on obliterating democracy under the guise of genius. See also: authoritarian cosplay, unchecked narcissism, and the death of accountability.
April 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Trusk (noun): A bloated, megalomaniacal wrecking ball of greed and delusion—part washed-up demagogue, part insufferable techbro—hell-bent on obliterating democracy under the guise of genius. See also: authoritarian cosplay, unchecked narcissism, and the death of accountability.
As an immigrant, I always dreamed of making it in America. I just didn’t realize step one was coming back from the dead to prove I exist. Land of opportunity, y'all!
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Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
As an immigrant, I always dreamed of making it in America. I just didn’t realize step one was coming back from the dead to prove I exist. Land of opportunity, y'all!
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www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Constitution’s just a prop, and Trump knows how to work a stage.
Final act? Democracy, disappearing without applause.
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Final act? Democracy, disappearing without applause.
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A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution
If Donald Trump can disappear people to El Salvador without due process, he can do anything.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Constitution’s just a prop, and Trump knows how to work a stage.
Final act? Democracy, disappearing without applause.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Final act? Democracy, disappearing without applause.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
No need for inspections—truth, food, or anything else under Trump. Negligence was the plan all along. Bon appétit, America!
www.thedailybeast.com/fda-plans-to...
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FDA Plans to End Most of Its Food Safety Inspections
Federal health officials tell CBS the FDA is planning to end routine food safety inspections and shift the responsibility to states.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No need for inspections—truth, food, or anything else under Trump. Negligence was the plan all along. Bon appétit, America!
www.thedailybeast.com/fda-plans-to...
www.thedailybeast.com/fda-plans-to...
Texas: where government overreach is only a problem when it interferes with profits. Everything’s bigger here, even the hypocrisy!
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Texas hemp farmers fear full THC ban would nip industry in the bud
As lawmakers work to close loopholes that allow minors access to cannabis consumables, hemp farmers warn a total THC ban would strangle a once-hailed crop.
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April 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Texas: where government overreach is only a problem when it interferes with profits. Everything’s bigger here, even the hypocrisy!
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/18/T...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/18/T...
In other stellar Texas news, Republicans can’t honor a woman who fought for public health, but they’re all in for any empty political stunt that fits their agenda. I smell a new Netflix hit: "Where Women’s Achievements Are Optional,” starring this douchebag.
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/t...
House Republicans refuse to pass ceremonial resolution honoring Cecile Richards
Normally, memorial resolutions to honor Texans who have died are passed without controversy. But the resolution for Richards, a former president of Planned Parenthood who died this year, sparked a cas...
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April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In other stellar Texas news, Republicans can’t honor a woman who fought for public health, but they’re all in for any empty political stunt that fits their agenda. I smell a new Netflix hit: "Where Women’s Achievements Are Optional,” starring this douchebag.
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/t...
As a non-native Texan, I'm so proud to say that my adopted state, where science is optional and conspiracy theories are a lifestyle, is now hosting a measles revival! Yeeehawww! RFK Jr. must be as thrilled as I am that his brand of delusion is thriving.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...
Texas measles cases rise to 597. Here is what you need to know.
Two more counties, Potter and Parmer, have reported a measles case. The outbreak has cost state taxpayers $4.5 million to pay for immunization, testing and a public awareness campaign.
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April 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As a non-native Texan, I'm so proud to say that my adopted state, where science is optional and conspiracy theories are a lifestyle, is now hosting a measles revival! Yeeehawww! RFK Jr. must be as thrilled as I am that his brand of delusion is thriving.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/18/t...