Queer Life
Herbal Hormone Supplements Can Change the Meaning of Trans Embodiment
Estrogen and testosterone have historically been deployed to produce gender compliant citizens. What if, instead, they were agents of autonomy?
How the Secrets Came Out
This was about protecting the new self growing its delicate way within me.
When Work Doesn’t Love You Back
Reflecting on my personal work history, I’ve learned that searching for a job I love has often kept me from balance in my creative life.
This Green Velvet Jacket Helped Me Understand My Nonbinary Identity
It’s about being able to say, oh, gender? It’s no big deal. I just threw this gender on today.
Finding a More Tender, Queer Masculinity in ‘The Outsiders’
The Outsiders’ world was the one in which I wanted to belong.
The Big Gay Move
For all the meaningful internal changes I’d made since coming out, the city and space and circles I occupied were keeping me tethered.
Queer Visibility and the Self-Checkout Camera
It both thrills me to watch myself as others might watch me in the world, and instills in me a deep loneliness—a grief that reminds me I am so helplessly stuck inside of myself.
The Homoerotics of Water
In the water, what you are called can change. And words, like water, will dissolve.
How My Community Showed Me I Could Be Both Muslim and Queer
“It was this Islam, the Islam of authenticity, community, justice, and love, that showed me how to be a truer version of myself.”
Letting Go of Guilt to Live My Truth as a Queer Woman
As euphoric as my queer epiphany felt, I’d had it as my mother lay sick. It felt like I was reentering the world as my mother was leaving it.