Lai Yin

She writes about marriage, motherhood, sex, and power. She lives in Europe with her husband and their three daughters.

Bordeaux

On sleeping in, farmers markets, pancakes and being naked all day.

By Lai Yin

/ 19 Apr 2026

Bordeaux

Göttingen

On bratwurst and ice cream in the sun, stick shifts, and the pill.

By Lai Yin

/ 5 Apr 2026

Göttingen

Tours

On Brazilian waxing, nights until dawn, high-voltage batteries and milkshakes by the Loire.

By Lai Yin

/ 8 Mar 2026

Tours

Chinese New Year

On pan-fried turnip cake, sleeping with a Gweilo, fertility, and the impossible task of being Lai Yin.

By Lai Yin

/ 17 Feb 2026

Chinese New Year

A typical week of stable placement

On the embodied experience of ease and grace carried by his fullness and focus on me.

By Lai Yin

/ 9 Feb 2026

A typical week of stable placement

Porto

On departures, arrivals that never happened, and second chances.

By Lai Yin

/ 6 Feb 2026

Porto

Spring Moon

On dining out, and moving house.

By Lai Yin

/ 1 Feb 2026

Spring Moon

Lijiang

On altitude, breathlessness, and boundaries held.

By Lai Yin

/ 25 Jan 2026

Lijiang

Bali

On sex, pregnancy, children and wanting.

By Lai Yin

/ 18 Jan 2026

Bali

Berlin

On hospitality, family, fundraising, and sex before breakfast.

By Lai Yin

/ 11 Jan 2026

Berlin

Sydney

On dinners at Felix, motherhood, and twenty years of asking who leads.

By Lai Yin

/ 4 Jan 2026

Sydney

On patriarchy

Patriarchy is incompatible with biology

By Lai Yin

/ 28 Dec 2025

On patriarchy