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Lily Alvarado

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About Lily Alvarado

Lily Alvarado is a queer Boricua whose heart was born and sings in The Bronx, New York. Her titles include grad student, educator, decolonial feminist, breaker of generational cycles, and lover of reptiles.

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Raving by McKenzie Wark

LGBT Book Reviews

Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”

2 weeks ago No Comments

A blonde woman with blue eyes is filming a TikTok while making a sad pouty face. She is framed by a ring light, against a blue wall.

Politics + Activism

The NYC TikTok Influencer to Gentrification Pipeline

1 month ago 9 Comments

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School

Practical Magic: How to Take a Decolonial Approach to Educating

2 months ago 11 Comments

The author Lily Alvarado wearing mint green ear loops and a gray hoodie

Shopping

These Earplugs Changed My Life, Help Me Sleep Better Than Ever

3 months ago 17 Comments

TV Feature

“Dead End: Paranormal Park” and “Heartbreak High” Are for Autistic Queer Girls

3 months ago 11 Comments

Two young girls laugh and lay close to each other in Mosquita y Mari

First Person
Movie Features

Homoerotic Friendships, Mosquita Y Mari, and the Things We Never Said

4 months ago 10 Comments

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Holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Your Grad School Friend Who’s Too Busy To Read This

4 months ago 4 Comments

Sarah Paulson in American Horror Story: Asylum, Thomasin in The Witch, Adelaide in Us, Juliette and Calliope in First Kill, Sarah Paulson in American Horro Story: Cult, Halle Berry in Gothika, the film A Woman Walks Home Alone at Night, Deena from Fear Street, and Sidney Prescott from Scream

Movie Lists

40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism

5 months ago 9 Comments

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Beauty

AM/PM: A Skincare Routine For The Overstressed Grad Student

5 months ago 10 Comments

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First Person

I Rediscovered Fanfiction This Year and It Reconnected Me to My Inner Teen

6 months ago 5 Comments

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Playlist: Ethereal Songs For Going Beyond Reality

6 months ago 2 Comments

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Rina Sawayama’s Sophomore Album “Hold the Girl” Wants Us To Heal Our Inner Child

6 months ago 4 Comments

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Herstory
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I’m Sick of White Women Centering Themselves in the Struggle For Reproductive Justice

7 months ago 9 Comments

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin fails in the same way as the original series

TV Feature

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Betrays Viewers in the Series Finale

7 months ago 15 Comments

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First Person

Opening Up at a North Country Diner

8 months ago 9 Comments

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Music

Lesbian Jesus Rises! Hayley Kiyoko Gets Vulnerable on Sophomore Album “PANORAMA”

8 months ago 3 Comments

I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy has a purple book cover.

LGBT Book Reviews

“I Feel Love: Notes On Queer Joy” Reminds Us That Suffering Is Not Our Destiny

9 months ago 1 Comment

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LGBT Book Reviews
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Revisiting “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 45 Years Later

9 months ago 4 Comments

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Music

070 Shake Is Free In “You Can’t Kill Me”

10 months ago 1 Comment

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First Person

Measuring My Queerness By Different Therapists I’ve Had

10 months ago 8 Comments

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