Nisa Malli
nisamalli.bsky.social
Nisa Malli
@nisamalli.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, and policy wonk

www.nisamalli.com
https://nisamalli.substack.com
“He spoke in the idiom of today’s New York, with its neighborhoods of more recent arrivals. He went on Subway Takes and passed out sweets for Diwali in Jackson Heights, and showed up at the queer dance party Papi Juice to ask for votes.”
January 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
“Diligent injury prevention doesn’t address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia. The ghost of my adolescent self will always be there, beating me to the ball, unencumbered concepts such as paying for health insurance & Microsoft Teams”@outsidemag.bsky.social www.outsideonline.com/culture/love...
What My Rec League Taught Me About Aging, Ego, and Letting Go
On aging, denial, and the injuries that come from believing you’re still invincible.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Reposted by Nisa Malli
"For me, podcasts were patient companions who didn’t mind repeating themselves...They kept me company when I was too sick to leave the house." @nisamalli.bsky.social tells us about the cognitive impacts of Long COVID, and how she used podcasts to recover.

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How TV podcasts helped me regain my memory after Long COVID
When my girlfriend of six years broke up with me by text, followed by a short call, I couldn’t comprehend it. It wasn’t grief, shock, or denial. My brain, damaged from 16 months of Long COVID, couldn’...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every single page of @arabellesicardi.bsky.social’s House of Beauty so far has contained a horrifying interesting fact I did not know about the beauty industry and also now I can’t stop thinking about how evil the term “beauty” “industry” is.
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It’s v apt that a video on how Zygmunt Bauman’s book Liquid Modernity predicted the modern situationship that brought me back to text-based social media but here we go. Because where else can I gripe that actually Bauman predicted the modern situationship in his lesser known sequel Liquid Love?
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM