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A social science writer on identity, language, and the weirdness of being human.

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    Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Electric Literature, and ELLE, among others. She is a staff writer for Hidden Brain, a social science podcast and radio program that airs on NPR, and a columnist at Slate.

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