Arts & Culture
The One With the Offensive Joke About Intersex People
Like any sitcom created before the mid-aughts—around the time Hollywood started doing the bare minimum to give space to marginalized people—‘Friends’ has not aged well.
Legolas Bends the Space-Time Continuum
As the music crescendos, you fall, and then you fall some more. A portal, unused for twenty years, cracks open, and then—here you are again.
Reflecting on the Challenges of Telling Femme, Black, Queer Stories
In writing for TV, I’m committed to doing what I can to wave the Black-femme-boy flag. We deserve to be heroes.
Looking into the Reflections of Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’
The filmmaker’s retreat from the conventions of Socialist realism—patriotism, militarism, subservience—becomes a journey to locate the self outside the strictures of state ideology.
Miss Scarlet, in the Lounge, with the Rope: What Clue Taught Me About Gender
Being a girl meant minimizing myself and my needs, but Miss Scarlet embodied glamour, power and possibility in an unapologetically femme package.
The False Comfort of the ’80s Suburban Lawn
Mowing the lawn is a frivolous act.
When the South Drove Me Away, Kacey Musgraves’ Music Offered Me a Home
I’m a queer, northeast girl with southern roots, and no one has captured that duality quite like Kacey Musgraves.
This Cartoon Will Help You Rethink Your Definition of Intimacy
The show went a step further than other cartoons of the time: It showed young women intentionally building a life together.
Journalism and Literature Need to Make Room for “Unfamiliar” Stories
To refresh our sense of empathy we have to expose ourselves to other perspectives. In the news, in literature, in life.
Conversations with Friends with Endometriosis
All my life, I had looked for answers in books, and I was no different when it came to endometriosis.