Queer Life
Making Connections Through the “Trans Trade”
The act of the trans trade, and its ritualization, came readily to hand for me, but it’s a distant possibility for so many of us.
As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did
Some misguided fans believe they are owed information about artists’ sexual and gender identities. As a queer writer myself, this worries me.
Before I Came Out as Nonbinary, My Gender Was Thin
I needed to fight my way out of the trance of thinness in order to find out what else was possible, in order to finally see myself.
Every Queer Person Should Learn How to Fight
On its surface, Brazilian jiu-jitsu was not a sport that I belonged in. To say that it is macho is an understatement.
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.
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.
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.
What Reading ‘Nevada’ Across Transition Did For Me
Transition needn’t be a straight line.
How Perfume Gives Me Peace in My Genderfluidity
There is no opposite to reconcile. I’ve been both bride and groom, loved and lived as both, since both lived in me.
Patti Smith Defined Cool in Lesbian Bars of the ’80s
I pinballed between circles of lesbians but settled nowhere. Gorgeous women were everywhere but always out of reach in San Francisco’s mesmerizing haze.