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Ghostworld

By K-Ming Chang
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By K-Ming Chang
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A speculative essay that asks whether girlhood—the realm of playacting, hidden worlds, and secret identities—can be understood as a portal to alternate futures and queer possibility.

At age five, K-Ming Chang imagines ghostworld into existence—an uncanny double of earthly reality accessible only to her and her best friend M. Like any intensely fantasized childhood game, ghostworld stretches the bounds of reality. It’s hidden outside of time, held in place by the shared act of playing pretend...

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