first person How I Grieved for a Cat Over Long Distance There’s beauty in sharing a friendship with an animal that needs to be earned. Summer Tao Dec 29, 2025
first person 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. Gen — Oct 26, 2023
first person Untethered: Into the Woods The woods are Escape. They have always held my personal ideal of “freedom” cradled in their branches. Nico — Oct 26, 2023
first person My Jiddo Fled Palestinian Genocide so I Could Be Free A free Palestine means a freer world. Laila Makled — Oct 25, 2023
first person 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. Kristen Arnett — Oct 7, 2023
first person On *NSYNC and Being a Lesbian Who Loves Boy Bands If you had to make me into a pie chart, being queer and loving *NSYNC are basically the same size. Sa'iyda Shabazz — Oct 6, 2023
first person Untethered: On Living Alone, Reimagining Family I’ve been dredging through the remains of my life since my ex and I started living in this house four years ago. Nico — Oct 5, 2023
first person Untethered: In Pursuit of Abject Sluttiness I committed to stepping off the relationship escalator, but I didn’t commit to being celibate, okay? Nico — Sep 21, 2023
first person You Came Out As Queer; Now Come Out as an Artist I still have a hard time saying: I am a writer. I am an artist. Anya Richkind — Sep 14, 2023
