Alice 10/17/26 Alice 10/17/26

Pleading Innocence: The Problem with Immutability in Sex Equality Law

Immutability has long held a privileged place in U.S. sex equality law, and it has produced a peculiar way of defending women: insisting that they “cannot help being women.”

Alice 8/29/26 Alice 8/29/26

少无所依

Sometimes it feels like I’ve got a war in my mind
I wanna get off but I keep riding the ride
I never really noticed that I had to decide
To play someone’s game or live my own life

Alice 7/12/26 Alice 7/12/26

如鲠在喉

所以，你告诉我，我们到底有没有明天。

Alice 4/19/26 Alice 4/19/26

The Age of Innocence

Life in a Chinese public high school in Wuhan, 2018–2021, and how it shaped my academic journey.

Alice 4/8/26 Alice 4/8/26

Unapologetic

Fitting into this system doesn’t mean renouncing the person I was before I entered it. I have to remind myself of that more often than I’d like.

Alice 12/10/25 Alice 12/10/25

Full Disclosure

My life story, annotated.

Alice 11/27/25 Alice 11/27/25

Evermore

And I was catching my breath
Staring out an open window
Catching my death
And I couldn't be sure
I had a feeling so peculiar
That this pain would be for
Evermore

Alice 5/23/25 Alice 5/23/25

北京，北京

从这里出发，是幸运的吗。

Alice 3/21/24 Alice 3/21/24

泡沫

我为我的庸俗而哭，我为拿走商场里最便宜的鸡蛋而哭，我为我攥在手里的存款而哭，我为我别扭的自尊心而哭，我为我自作聪明的现实主义而哭。但我什么也做不了，我只能哭。

Alice 9/26/23 Alice 9/26/23

Childless(free) and Unapologetic

And if human civilization cannot stand after overriding some of its most barbaric, brutal, and self-righteous conceptions, I, nor my peers, need to apologize for it.

Alice 12/22/22 Alice 12/22/22

灰烬的颜色

虽然我也很想说，历史于我们只是擦肩而过，但纵览这三年前后的种种，我不得不承认，它已经被我揉进生命体验的一部分，以至于每每提起我的家乡，彼时浸入身体发肤的情绪都齐齐涌现，用温柔而坚定的方式告诉我，往事并不如烟。

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