Portfolio

Highlights of my scribblings below.

RECENT

• TikTok: 7 Gifts for the Boss You Don’t Like (for @glamourmag)

• Instagram: SELF: Out of Office in Iceland (for @selfmag)

• Podcast: Burnout Recovery: 9 Months After Quitting The Job – Malia Griggs

SELF

Features

• I Quit My Job Because of Burnout

• What I Wish I’d Known Before My Health Scare

• Being Called Exotic Is Just One Reason Dating Gives Me Anxiety As a Biracial Woman

Commerce writing (all articles here)

• Actually Useful Gifts All Practical People Will Appreciate

• The Very Best Sex Toys for Women, According to Experts

• The $15 Handheld Fan Changed My Sweaty Little Life

• The Tushy Ace Bidet Is the Upgrade My Bathroom Needed

• This Is the Sex Toy I Didn’t Know I Needed

• If You Squirt During Sex—Or Want to Try!—This Blanket Is a Godsend

• The Dyson V8 Animal Is the Best Vacuum I’ve Ever Owned

• 42 Unique Gifts for the Person Who’s Impossible to Shop For

• 10 Best Sex Pillows to Help You Hit All the Right Angles

• 18 Best Sex Games That Bring Play to Your Pleasure

• 65 Best Gifts for Every Guy in Your Life

• Review: An Electric Toothbrush That Gives Me Real-Time Feedback

• Everything That a First-Time Cat Owner Needs

• The 8 Best Bidets for Your Toilet 

• Asian American-Owned Small Businesses You Can Support Today

• The Best N95 Face Masks—And Where You Can Buy Them

• Road Test: I Tried Hinge’s Virtual Date Night Kit

The Daily Beast

Stories (full archive here)

• #MeToo: I Can’t Distinguish What I Do for Myself from What I Do for Men

• A Biracial Woman Reflects on Building Bridges in the Time of Trump

• Harry Potter Is My Patronus in the Time of Trump

• “I March For My 13-Year-Old Daughters”: Women Tell Us Why They’re Protesting In D.C.

Cosmopolitan

Feature stories (all Cosmo clips here)

• “I’m a Virgin Working at Cosmo!”

• I Didn’t Have My First Kiss Until College, But Don’t Call Me a Late Bloomer

• This Is What Happens When You Write About Your Virginity In Cosmo

• Secrets to Steal from Extreme LDRs

• 2012 America’s Hottest Bachelors Contest

• Fun Fearless Females: Interviews with Ava Duvernay, Tulsi Gabbard, and more

Quick hits (selected)

• 15 Ways to Get a Killer Body Image (Yahoo! Shine)

• Skin Apps that Could Save His Life

• What His Apartment Says About Him

• 8 Things He Never Wants You to Do In Bed

Women's Health

• Why I Can’t Figure Out What to Do with My Pubic Hair

• Should We All Just Retire Hand Jobs?

The Huffington Post

• Lessons I’ve Learned (So Far) Living in New York

• Why the South Carolina Primary Is Secondary

GIN + PLATONIC

Selections from my (now retired) blog about relationships and dating

• The Bachelorette

• Spinning Into Control

• My Tinder Date with a Satanist

Full portfolio of writing here.