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Symin Adive

Symin (sigh-mean) Adive is a Bangladeshi visual artist (QCA and Franklin Furnace Fund grant recipient), comedian (The Onion, Upright Citizens Brigade) and parenthesis enthusiast (wee!). See her work at syminadive.com and on instagram @sighmean

Comedy Writing

I’m a Phone and I’m Wasting My Life Staring at This Human

The man drains my battery from the second he wakes up to the second he falls asleep, leaving only a few hours for me to charge overnight.

by Symin Adive
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February 24, 2026

Ground Rules for the Low-Stakes Time Machine

You can’t go back in time to kill Hitler, but you can go back to start your watercolor hobby earlier so you’d be at a more intermediate level now.

by Symin Adive and Ethan David
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October 20, 2020

As A New Found Minimalist, I Will Be Fannypacking Around Europe

by Symin Adive | July 10, 2024 | The Belladonna

Nation’s Contemporary Dancers Announce Plans To Yearningly Reach For Air

by Symin Adive | September 7, 2021 | The Onion