Zain Khalid's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, elsewhere, and sometimes on television. He is currently at work on his debut novel.

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A Petition to Degentrify Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues

By ZAIN KHALID

“We have lived in the Dark Purples for as long as we can remember.”