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The 13th Annual Gothamite 🎄 Special  

If you live on the coasts, you are in a liberal bubble of wealth and prestige. There’s a reason they call Kansas “flyover country.”

If you have a four-year college degree, you are more educat

The Woodworker Who Saved Christmas 🪚

If you’re looking for an inspirational story then look to the other Joseph in the Bible. The one with the technicolor dream coat who had the all-American, rags-to-riches life. He got it all: a hot wife, ri

How I Became a Pro-Choice Christian 🤯

if you want to confound a staunchly pro-life Protestant, ask them where abortion is mentioned in their Bible. Confound them still by asking where it says there should be exceptions for cases of rape and incest.

The Good Fight 🥊

Just two days after I wrote a post asking folks to say “no” to Matt Gaetz’s appointment. Not saying it was me (very unlikely). But it’s a win. And over the next four or more years I’ll take each one as

Friends don't let friends approve Matt Gaetz for Attorney General 🐘

Hello all,

I’d like to speak to all the folks who have Republican senators representing their state today if that’s all right.

See, last week the President-elect anno

The New Frontier 🧭

Over the past year I’ve moved to New York, found progressive Christianity, served on a jury, lost my job and changed my name. But I won’t remember 2024 for any of those things.

No. I’ll remember this past Wedne

I Hate Fall 🍂

“I am loving this weather,” a white friend told me the other day. I was faced, in the moment, with a choice. Do I quietly let the remark pass, agree with it (and lie)? Or do I speak up and tell the truth?

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My Name is Vasant 🌸

Hello everyone, a few weeks I legally changed my name to Vasant Alex Laplam.

It was a decision years in the making, for reasons I’ll get into more in this post. But practically speaking, this means I would prefer that you

Blue Christmas ❄️

What good was Christmas, anyway?
Strip away all the angels and magi and what do you get? It’s the story of a teenager getting pregnant before her wedding. Her fiance raises the child who he knows is not his own. They have the

The Gothamite is on Hiatus

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You got your first job! 👩🏾&zwj;💼

Congrats!!

Now sit down for a sec and let James Chachan guide you on making the jump from college culture to corporate culture ...

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I am so, so proud of my Desi brothers and sisters around the world.

We have won Oscars, lit up movie screens, won gold medals and broken through in so many ways this year.

Check out my last post for #SouthAsianHistoryMonth and tell me:

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