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Note about the poem from Noah Arhm Choi  for MQR's Fall 2023 issue "Transversions": While gender affirming care has singularly been one of the best things that has happened in my life, it has also meant that going to the Korean spa has no longer become an option with their binary locker rooms and my fears around discomfort and safety. This poem speaks to the ways that I yearn for queerness and Koreanness to be able to exist in the same space, and how even the best things aren't necessarily black or white, all good or all evil. I think this poem, too, is a way to speak to the ways that binary notions of categorization often fail to encompass the fullness of our humanity and our experiences.