Queer Life
On Running Shirtless While Trans
Maybe I was tired of hiding and being afraid. Maybe I was just overheating and my nipples were starting to chafe. Maybe it was all or none of the above.
It’s More Than Just “Two Boys Kissing”
David Wojnarowicz captured the chaos of living as a gay man in the 1980s and early 1990s with HIV overshadowing everything we did and felt.
Starting Testosterone During Ramadan Led Me to the Sacred in My Trans Self
Before testosterone, few people ever saw me cry. Now tears come in hot floods, as though some tender, unlanguaged creature has surfaced inside me.
Lessons On Camp and Queerness from ‘American Horror Story’
Madison Montgomery never stops performing. She is at once person and persona.
The Night a Grieving Phantom in the Everglades Changed My Life
The land that was previously seen as harsh and brutal by colonial forces was actually a site of survival, new life, and renewal.
Confessions of a Little Mermaid
The taste of silence and salt heavy on my tongue.
Matthew Shepard Bought an Engagement Ring
I knew about Matt’s legacy, but I didn’t know much about his life.
Coming Out, as Told by Florida Wildlife
Can you still hear us? We’re drowning the state in our chirps tonight if you’d care to sing along.
How Writing My Young Adult Novel Helped Me Reclaim the Queer Girlhood I Lost
The years I suppressed my queerness are a loss that I’m exploring and grieving—if only through fiction.
Halloween 1998, Old Man with Old Wife
Obviously, I cannot be the old woman. Obviously, I cannot be the woman.