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Sohini Desai


I’m a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. My features, essays, commentary, and investigations have appeared in The Baffler, Defector, Slate, them, City Limits, and City & State, among other publications.


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 Eventually Everyone Will Be Called A Terrorist
Defector — July 2026 Unlike The Defendants, One Of The Prairieland Judges Is Part Of An Organized Cell Of Extremists
Defector — July 2026 The U.S. Is Still Killing People In Illegal Boat Strikes
Defector — June 2026 Washed-Up Clown Spencer Pratt Will Not Be The Mayor of Los Angeles
Defector — June 2026 Prisoners At Private ICE Jail In New Jersey Collectively Refuse Conditions Of Death
Defector — June 2026 Bullshit Bots
The Baffler — February 2026 How the Passport Became a Linchpin of Trump’s Gender Panic Plot
Slate — January 2026 Trans Health Care Is Under Attack. But Are Concierge Providers Really the Solution?
Slate — July 2024
I appeared on Slate’s Outward podscat to discuss my reporting with Jules Gill-Peterson: