Lai Yin

Tours

On Brazilian waxing, nights until dawn, high-voltage batteries and milkshakes by the Loire.

Mar 8

February 2026

Chinese New Year

On pan-fried turnip cake, sleeping with a Gweilo, fertility, and the impossible task of being able Lai Yin.

Feb 17

Porto

On departures, arrivals that never happened, and second chances.

Feb 6

January 2026

Lijiang

On altitude, breathlessness, and boundaries held.

Jan 25

Berlin

On hospitality, family, fundraising, and sex before breakfast.

Jan 11

Sydney

On dinners at Felix, motherhood, and twenty years of asking who leads.

Jan 4

December 2025

On patriarchy

Patriarchy is incompatible with biology

Dec 28, 2025

Bali

On sex, pregnancy, children and wanting.

Dec 7, 2025

On marriage

Marriage is a really, really bad idea. Separation has been in the air we breathe since the beginning.

Dec 1, 2025

November 2025

On childbirth

I had just given birth when her little sister followed.

Nov 30, 2025

On c-section

Years after our daughters were born, I was still chasing a son. Conception wasn’t instant like it was with our daughters.

Nov 24, 2025

On phở

On broth and heat, raw meat and raw nerves.

Nov 19, 2025