The Books of Lai Yin

On marriage, motherhood, sex, family, food, airports and the impossible work of holding a house.

Gravity 重力

Embodied power.

On driving

He lets me rage and knows it's love.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 28 Oct 2025

On driving

Some women are sent

Some women aren’t just born. They’re summoned across bloodlines and time to complete what another woman began.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 24 Oct 2025

Some women are sent

Paris

On boundaries, break-up sex and leaving by train.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 23 Oct 2025

Paris

People are performing for a performer who is dead.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 12 Oct 2025

People are performing for a performer who is dead.

On presence

He does not always listen. But he always sees.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 1 Oct 2025

On presence

The mother with tattoos

On wanting and obedience.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 6 Aug 2025

The mother with tattoos

When I don’t tame him

When I don’t tether him. When I just want to be wrecked.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 12 Jul 2025

When I don’t tame him

Daily rituals for aging with power

These five daily rituals restore dignity, sensuality, and presence to the process of aging. Power doesn’t fade.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 18 Jun 2025

Daily rituals for aging with power

Seoul

I travelled alone this trip. I was marrying him this year and needed this trip for myself. I ate Kimchi jjigae on Garosu-gil and restored what I never should’ve lost.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 15 May 2025

Seoul

On the Sybian

I don’t expect him to provide what a man cannot. I expect to orgasm the way my body wants. Not what it settled for.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 30 Mar 2025

On the Sybian

SHEHOLDS 她拿著

A publication about how women shape and hold the spaces around them.