Ian Kumamoto

Ian Kumamoto is a Mexico City-born, Texas-raised and Brooklyn-based writer whose work centers the lives and wellbeing of queer and trans people of color. His work has appeared in the New York Times, VICE, the Washington Post and other fancy places.

In his free time, Ian likes to eat, drink and shop at Rainbow. He's a deadbeat dad to a dog that now lives with his ex. He usually refers to himself in the first person.

Immigrants did it first

Immigrant families have been doing the TikTok-famous 'hot girl walk' for ages

Identity

The TikTok-viral beauty brand rooted in its founder's Asian upbringing

Identity

The beautiful complexity of being Asian Latino

Latinx Heritage Month

Hispanic, Latinx, or Latine: Which is correct?

Identity

What it’s like to date as a trans person in 2022

Life

TikTokers claim that ‘brown noise’ is helping them focus

Life

Juul will pay nearly half a billion to settle a teen vaping investigation

Nope nope nope

‘Transracial’ influencer and BTS wannabe Oli London is wrong in too many ways to count

TikTok

We need to end the TikTok “Keep or Return” trend

Bye, America

Why young people of color are getting the hell out of the U.S.

Drugs

Magic mushrooms could help you quit drinking, according to a study

Books

Mimi Zhu’s 'Be Not Afraid of Love' is a love letter to their queer community

How (Un)original

Don’t freak out, but you may have a lookalike who shares your DNA

RIP hustle culture

The rise of radical rest

This is why we can't have nice things

Rainwater is apparently too toxic to drink now

Health

How worried should we be about the new Langya virus?

Cheers

The 23 best things to drink this summer

Nope

People are renting out actual slave cabins on Airbnb

Travel

WTF is going on with flights right now?

Oops

Is anyone surprised that this anti-vax dating site was hacked?