Queer Life
Building the Trans Gaze For Myself
Why does my assigned sex have to limit me at all?
Learning to Hate Yourself in Los Angeles
They told me, “Gay people are all in WeHo. There are no gay people in Inglewood.” To be gay was not only to be Other, but to be white.
How Clea DuVall Helped Me Find Queer Joy
But I’m a Cheerleader gave me something to hold onto: for the first time, I had seen queer love and community.
The Queer Diary of an Extreme Heterozygote
Extreme heterozygotes are everywhere in this world. Everyone could be one.
Visible Invisibility: The Ghostly Nature of Queer-Reading
I cannot explain queerness any longer in ways that don’t involve ghosts.
Before There Was a Q
Look like “a boy,” they call you “a boy.” Everyone believed my mother got her answer to her prayer, and for a while it seemed to be so.
How Queer Sex Liberated Me
Leaving my cishet marriage was hard, but it set us both free to find more satisfying relationships.
How ‘Drag Race’ Helped Me See My Non-Binary Identity
When I look at my personal aesthetic (if I could call it that), I see something that gives me room to move through binaries.
Taking Thirst Traps to Preserve Myself—and My Transition—in the Middle of the Pandemic
There is something attractive about being the subject and the artist all at once; of being entirely in control of how I am seen, who sees me.