Results for: Feel good
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Transition Is Allowed To Feel Bad Sometimes
Realistically, I understand that if you do something for 11 months, the chance that you’ll feel good for every second of those 11 months is zero.
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Let Me Be in My Queer Italianx Feelings for a Minute
It was a simple post. So simple and, in the grand scheme of it all, not super meaningful, and yet, I teared up.
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After We Watched Barbie
Transitioning to a man in a predominately white world makes me resentful. Genders are floating worlds, and I am doing gender somewhere I do not belong.
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Cherry Coke Triptych
Giving up caffeinated soda was one of the hardest parts of being pregnant.
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How Bottoming Helped Me Heal From Sexual Trauma
I had to learn how to feel safe in the world in order to bottom. For me, surrender is healing.
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On Staying Sober and What TV Gets Right and Wrong About Alcohol
“I feel like being the only sober person in a group is so much pressure.”
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Building My Own Masturbation Rituals as a Pleasure Educator
There’s nothing quite as powerful as being in charge of your own pleasure.
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Three Stages of Never Ever Doing Holiday Meals the “Right” Way
Holiday meals have always been mired in conflict for me.
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Coming to Terms With My Asexuality as a Black, Non-Binary Lesbian
Society can make us feel like we’re flawed or like our relationships aren’t as valid because we’re not having as much sex as we’re “supposed to.”
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10 Things I Spend My Money on Now That Isn’t Drugs or Alcohol
When I got sober, I also thought I would be saving so much money. What happened instead is that I found different ways to spend my money.
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Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
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Strapping As A Fat Femme Was My Black Queer Sexual Liberation
A fat Black femme explores the relationship with her body and shares how strapping became part of her sexual liberation.
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Crop Tops, Saris, and Unlearning Gendered Fashion
I’d avoided saris all my life. It was during the pandemic, when crop tops brought me a sense of freedom and gender euphoria, that I realized saris weren’t too far off.
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Beers I Drank From Ages 14 to 20 That Made Me the ‘Man’ I Am Today
Every punk party — whether it was in Ft. Lauderdale or Lake Worth or North Miami — had the exact same drink options. Either you were drinking Mickey’s or you were doing shots of Jack Daniels.
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Journaling With My Grief
I have three journals. I no longer have my dad. I’ll write this story for the rest of my life.
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Marrying a Divorced Person Awakened Unexpected Insecurities in Me
What if I’m bad at being a wife?
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Lying On The Floor With My Grief
I wanted to exist with my grief in my body, not so much in my mind.
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As a Black, Fat, Disabled Person in Love, My Monogamy Feels Radical
For me, navigating polyamorous dynamics with white people is inherently taxing and painful as a Black person.
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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
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Et Tu, Laura Ingalls Wilder?
I, too, can only be what I am. And I am a hick, and a hillbilly, and a half-breed. I’m just telling you a story. It’s all I know how to do.