Niko Stratis - Anxiety Shark (Page 5)

Late to forever

I'm going to admit something to you, a personal failing or at the very least an admission to having arrived late: I'm listening to Wednesday, and I'm doing it for the first time. Rat Saw God, the North Carolina bands fifth record, is last

A love letter to the rain

I need another week before I can write anything here. I tell myself this every morning. Just one more week. Just one more. Very recently, I lived up to the looming threat of my responsibilities and filed the first rough draft of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made

Memories and Artifice

This is all artifice, it is beautiful for it, and we are lucky to be here together to watch a world of someone else's creation live and fade around us.

Jackass made me the trans woman I am

*This piece originally ran in Bitch Magazine in 2022. I wrote it firmly believing that a trans woman writing about Jackass wasn't going to set the world on fire, and it didn't, but it was nonetheless surprisingly well-received. I will never forget getting a text from

Love written on a blank check

hey everyone, thanks for following me here over to my new home, Anxiety Shark now powered by Ghost! Apologies that there were some issues with transferring over and emails not going out, but I think things are sorted now and hopefully we're off and running! It's