I’ve been acting like I have a salary. I don’t. I have books. I have ideas. I have a body of work that exists to reach people who need it. And every platform I abandon in the name of ethics is a limb I’ve cut off to prove I’m fighting fair.
I spent years telling anyone who would listen that Amazon was the problem. Not a problem — the problem. The monopolist eating indie publishing alive, the algorithm overlord that made serfs of writers, the company that could delist your life’s work on a Tuesday afternoon with no explanation and no appeal. I believed all of that. I still believe most of it.
Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother and consort of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), stands as the architect of modern Thai national identity through fashion.