Memos by jenn chang

• Gay Ski Week

  Gay Ski Week is an annual LGBTQ+ winter gathering held in mountain resort towns — most notably Aspen, Colorado — bringing together thousands of queer people for a week of skiing, social events,...

• Are We Outsourcing Intimacy?

  I'm lying down as a brunette woman straddles me. I'm holding her hips. She's moving in sync with a machine attached to my body, in a room full of strangers at a trade show in Denver. This is The...

• Friction Tolerance

  Friction tolerance is the capacity to remain present through the discomfort inherent to real intimacy — the risk of rejection, the exposure of being known, the unpredictability of another person's...

• jenn chang