Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate American society as fluently as their children.
It took me over two decades to readily consider myself a victim of abuse.
Your mom wants to braid friendship bracelets and you want to disappear into adulthood. Also, we help a reader embrace queer romance novels!
Practical tips for someone who wants to fuel their workouts with more protein but doesn’t want to track.
At first you don’t really know which of the baby’s behaviors are going to be a Thing and which are just the music playing in the lobby before you sit down for the show. But it seems like most people’s babies have a Thing.
Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a really really cute little baby boy.
Whenever I think of the sex workers I befriended, the thing that always struck me is how different we all are.
Surgery is allowed to suck, even when it’s a surgery that you really wanted.
Erectile dysfunction is consistently counted among the most common sexual disorders. It’s also a topic close to my heart (and other organs) because I experience it.
This is one of those incredibly difficult situations where you and your partner are both entitled to your feelings even though those feelings are at direct odds with each other.
Chicago, Winter 2015. I’m doing a cringe-worthy, cliche version of Living In Chicago In Your Early Twenties.
Whether you’re single, recently dumped, in love, or somewhere in between, we’ve got Valentine’s Day lesbian movie recs for you!
Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it — and if there’s anything I can say about our little Prenatal Birth & Labor class, it is “there was a lot I did not know.”
“If I’d made it this far into the pregnancy without being forced to face the reality that has inspired many of my generation to forego reproduction altogether, I could do so no longer.”
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
In 2025, I will have an affair with an older married woman.
The right time to start something new is anytime.
The Family Stone is many queer folks’ first introduction to warm, unconditional familial love.
It’s December 21 AKA the day Carol and Therese went on a pretty bad date at Carol’s house in New Jersey.
“I don’t mean to be rude, but a wolf literally just ripped off half my friend’s face.”