ANAHEIM, Calif. — There is no fandom quite like the fandom of teenage girls. It is powerful and pure, untainted by the burdensome knowledge of adulthood while burning with an intensity that feels beyond human comprehension. That's why the screaming for Alysa Liu sounds the way it does, and why it starts immediately, the moment her thousands of fans believe she is about to head out on the ice.…

When I was 24, a stranger on the internet called me a white man, and it sent me into such a tailspin that I changed my byline. Before then, I was going by “Alex Laughlin,” just my first and last name. I had started writing about race, and I’d made a podcast about multiracial identity called _Other_ , but if my name was to represent me on its own, there was no way for a stranger to know that very…

Including the exact shade of the Rare Beauty lip oil she helped make viral.

## Alysa Liu’s homecoming celebration was hella East Bay

More than 4,000 fans were in downtown Oakland to see the Olympic ice skating champion, including Bay Area athletes and musicians.

Women’s History Month began on March 1, fresh off the heels of the successful Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games. A breakout star at the games was a young woman, 20-year-old figure skater Alysa Liu, whose joyful, […]

What did she say?

See how she and teammate Amber Glenn feel about being "woke."

Is she seeing anyone?

Where are her parents from?

When did she dye it?

Can she earn more if she won gold?

When athletes are said to thrive under pressure, that generally does not mean that they do not feel it. Rather, the common understanding is that athletes, or at least the great ones, are capable of taking pressure and turning it into fuel. That thermodynamic process is a part of the incomprehensible psychology necessary to reach the pinnacle of competitive athletic greatness. What better source…

Since returning to figure skating, Alysa Liu has displayed an indifference toward earthly happenings that a bodhisattva would envy. That is not to say that she doesn't express joy upon completing a stellar performance. But she is never particularly moved by wins or losses, which has earned her internet descriptors of "totally unbothered," "nonchalant queen," and so on. Improbably, through the…

He opened up about how skating "traumatized" her before she came out of retirement.

The Olympic figure skater sometimes gets mistaken for a snowboarder because of the way she dresses.