Sujay Kumar
@sujaykumar.bsky.social
I read comments for @nytimes.com / fact-check and research for Columbia Global Reports, The Dial, The Drift / ex- eic Chicago Reader, The Daily Beast / sujay721@gmail
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we at @coyotemedia.org intend to do “alt-weekly-style” journalism. But what does that mean?
Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...
Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies
Alternative newsweeklies launched careers, called out corruption, and made journalism fun. Can we bring that energy back?
www.coyotemedia.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
we at @coyotemedia.org intend to do “alt-weekly-style” journalism. But what does that mean?
Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...
Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...
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For The New York Times Magazine I wrote about How Anime Took Over America. (Gift link). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z (Gift Article)
Netflix’s “Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
For The New York Times Magazine I wrote about How Anime Took Over America. (Gift link). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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For the Reader's Pleasure Issue, Wendy Wei reports from Kyiv on the power of Chicago house to cement a liberatory community in the face of literal invasion. This includes sustaining queer safe spaces—and welding pieces of music-festival stages into tank barriers! chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
Dance against war - Chicago Reader
In the midst of Russian invasion, clubs in Kyiv draw on Chicago house music’s spirit of communal liberation.
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August 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For the Reader's Pleasure Issue, Wendy Wei reports from Kyiv on the power of Chicago house to cement a liberatory community in the face of literal invasion. This includes sustaining queer safe spaces—and welding pieces of music-festival stages into tank barriers! chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
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Thanks so much for reading ♥️ For people who haven’t read it, in 2021 I wrote about the last men’s only “flophouse” hotel in Chicago, co-published in the Chicago Reader x New Republic: chicagoreader.com/news/the-las...
August 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Thanks so much for reading ♥️ For people who haven’t read it, in 2021 I wrote about the last men’s only “flophouse” hotel in Chicago, co-published in the Chicago Reader x New Republic: chicagoreader.com/news/the-las...
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wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
Bringing Sexy Back
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
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July 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...
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NEW unpaywalled: My months-long investigation into the use of hate crime charges against Palestine supporters since October 7th. I found 17 individuals who have faced hate crime charges for pro-Palestine activity or speech, and focused on a few cases here: jewishcurrents.org/how-support-...
How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime
A celebrated civil rights law is being used to target those opposing crimes against humanity—and ruining lives in the process.
jewishcurrents.org
June 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
NEW unpaywalled: My months-long investigation into the use of hate crime charges against Palestine supporters since October 7th. I found 17 individuals who have faced hate crime charges for pro-Palestine activity or speech, and focused on a few cases here: jewishcurrents.org/how-support-...
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When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
Opinion | I’m a Russian Scientist in ICE Detention
I was detained at Logan airport after I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When Kseniia Petrova moved from Russia to join a lab at Harvard Medical School, it felt like a dream. Now she’s been held for three months in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
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Palestinian women living in the West Bank have experienced increasing surveillance, intimidation and violence from Israel since Oct 7. Lynzy Billing’s investigation recounts the experiences of 22 former detainees and their physical and psychological mistreatment: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Arrested and Rearrested — The Dial
Since October 7, Palestinian women in the West Bank have experienced increasing intimidation, imprisonment and violence.
www.thedial.world
May 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Palestinian women living in the West Bank have experienced increasing surveillance, intimidation and violence from Israel since Oct 7. Lynzy Billing’s investigation recounts the experiences of 22 former detainees and their physical and psychological mistreatment: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children
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The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children
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“Using ‘open source material,’ agents at the investigative arm of ice compiled photos of tattoos considered suspicious: crowns, stars, the Michael Jordan Jumpman logo.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act
The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“Using ‘open source material,’ agents at the investigative arm of ice compiled photos of tattoos considered suspicious: crowns, stars, the Michael Jordan Jumpman logo.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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This week’s @chicagoreader.com cover is a long feature about the state’s first & only girl’s prison in Geneva, IL. For decades, it was also one of the most important sites of eugenic “research” in the US.
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The ghosts of Geneva's 'home for wayward girls' - Chicago Reader
The Illinois State Training School for Girls in Geneva was the state’s first and only girls’ prison. Today, it remains a cautionary lesson.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This week’s @chicagoreader.com cover is a long feature about the state’s first & only girl’s prison in Geneva, IL. For decades, it was also one of the most important sites of eugenic “research” in the US.
chicagoreader.com/news/feature...
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'Nobody can protect you,' Mr. Cobb said. 'These are dangerous times.' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
March 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
'Nobody can protect you,' Mr. Cobb said. 'These are dangerous times.' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
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Big news! I'm co-hosting a podcast about aging for the Atlantic! In "How to Age Up," Natalie Brennan and I challenge the assumption that getting older is a bad thing. What if we reimagined aging as a way to level up?
Episode 1 drops April 7 - trailer is here!
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Episode 1 drops April 7 - trailer is here!
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Introducing: 'How to Age Up'
The science around aging is expanding, but are our cultural narratives keeping up?
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March 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Big news! I'm co-hosting a podcast about aging for the Atlantic! In "How to Age Up," Natalie Brennan and I challenge the assumption that getting older is a bad thing. What if we reimagined aging as a way to level up?
Episode 1 drops April 7 - trailer is here!
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Episode 1 drops April 7 - trailer is here!
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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For @nplusonemag.com, me on 17 Oscar-nominated movies and David Lynch: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Oil Paintings at the Dentist’s Office
I can only take so much messiah talk in science-fiction, especially when it’s coming from Javier Bardem and Timothée Chalamet, both of whom I generally like, but here all I could think about was that ...
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March 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
For @nplusonemag.com, me on 17 Oscar-nominated movies and David Lynch: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
"'If it wasn’t so awful, it would be hilarious,' said Alma Aliaj, a former employee with the U.S. Agency for International Development who was recently fired, twice.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
February 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"'If it wasn’t so awful, it would be hilarious,' said Alma Aliaj, a former employee with the U.S. Agency for International Development who was recently fired, twice.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT, or Leo, as it named itself.
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...
She Is in Love With ChatGPT
A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.
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January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT, or Leo, as it named itself.
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...
She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor.
Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...
'Ankit, 21, who fled India, said he faced the threat of death as a Christian, and hoped God would bless his attempt to cross into the United States.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
Since Trump’s ‘Emergency,’ What Is Actually Happening on the Border?
Bored troops are standing watch, shelters have emptied from McAllen, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and border patrols speed through miles of frontier, finding no one in sight.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
'Ankit, 21, who fled India, said he faced the threat of death as a Christian, and hoped God would bless his attempt to cross into the United States.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
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Incredible updates from Hulu
February 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Incredible updates from Hulu
'If you’ve been called to be a graphic designer,' Mr. Pilgreen said, 'that’s a sacred vocation.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...
Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel)
When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
'If you’ve been called to be a graphic designer,' Mr. Pilgreen said, 'that’s a sacred vocation.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...