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Nico Hall writes creative nonfiction, cultural criticism and reported journalism — as well as fiction — and has appeared here at Autostraddle and at PublicSource. You can find them talking about butch/femme dynamics and queer history on the Unladylike podcast and about abolitionist approaches to queer breakups and queer divorce on the This American Ex-Wife podcast. They are currently at work on a longform nonfiction project. Nico is also haunted. You can find them on Instagram. Here's their website, too.
Nico has written 240 articles for us.