Opinion | This Year, Yet Again, I’m Dressing as Grapes (Gift Article)

So I have something better in the NYT for you to read than that Marissa Meyer Doing Gender piece. Please read my former roommate Michael's charming piece about how he's dressed as Grapes every year for Halloween for almost twenty years www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

This has perhaps the highest ratio of quality of writing to complete lack of any reason this writing should exist that I’ve ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

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This article is every bit as good as You Can See Everything at highlighting being known, being seen, being perceived, being hidden, being awkward, being apart, being human. This Year, Yet Again, I’m Dressing as Grapes www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

A delightfully touching essay on dressing up as Grapes every year: "I wanted armor — friendly up close, spooky at a distance; perceived but not seen. I was a weird queer brown kid navigating a new social world. I wanted attention, but not follow-up questions." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

"To don the same costume every year is to defy the relentless passing of time, and to see how I’ve changed in turn." - @michaellinares.bsky.social #Halloween @nytopinion.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

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This writer has a unique solution to the "What should I dress up as on Halloween?" Dressing up as grapes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

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"Grapes makes awkwardness literal and unavoidable, and somehow lets me be more myself. I can take a night off from self-protective extroversion — from meeting everyone more than halfway. Now they have to come to me. Surviving the night as Grapes is a testament to the miracle of human cooperation."