Results for: love is a lie
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Give It Time, Delphine
To really love anything, I think, is to run the risk of it not loving you back.
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To Be Trans Is To Refuse Borders
In 2022, I brought my girlfriend daddy to my homeland.
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Porkchop’s Odyssey: On Fatness, Transness, and Pants
This snapshot sits on a shelf in the back of my mind. I keep it in an album called “euphoria.” It includes moments – me in my first bowtie at my college graduation, me on my wedding day, me in the mountains with my first jean jacket. In each, I am myself.
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Old Gal, New Tricks: Queer Menopause and Masturbation
This is what we don’t talk about when we (don’t) talk about menopause…and masturbation.
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Every Life on This Page All at Once
I’m burdened by unlived lives, hovering within my dreams, just behind my pupils.
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Three Songs for Three Heartbreaks
I was in love, then I wasn’t. One night, after a big fight. I got on my bike to make the short trek home and a song came to me.
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Untethered: In Defense of a Messy Bed
There’s a certain kind of comfort to me in dishevelment.
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For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.
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What To Expect When Your Friends Are Expecting (as a Childfree Queer)
As my community transforms, I’ve developed a curiosity on how to transmute isolation into connection.
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I’m a Trans Woman in Prison, Where Being Myself Comes at a Cost
Lying on that rigid ol’ mattress, I realized: I’m transgender. Then one day without my permission, I found myself being me.
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Untethered: The Designated Girl-Son
I came across the concept of the “designated son” on TikTok.
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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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Before and After the Library
Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.
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An Incomplete List of Things I Wish My Mother Would Do
46. Look at the menu beforehand.
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My Word of the Year Was “Closer”
For as long as I can remember, I’ve held a silent tradition of closing out each year with a word.
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Always End Cuts
My wife and I were speeding through the hills of southern Vermont when I proposed a special date night.
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I Met My Online Friends for the First Time and Remained Fully in My Head
34. Am I a granola bar lesbian?
35. *eats a candy bar* no -
Where Are All the Scream Kings?
When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.
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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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How it Ends
I begin to realize my relationship is over when my boyfriend starts cleaning his gun in our apartment.