first person I Sent Nudes to Someone Pretending To Be a Fellow Sex Worker Learn from my experiences. Here’s how you can avoid getting catfished. Summer Tao Mar 12, 2026
first person I Spent the Summer Screaming in My Car, What About You? When the sound of a scream leaves my throat, it is a choice. I am never accidentally screaming. I scream in the car and it is on purpose. Vanessa — Aug 24, 2021
first person Hot Cheetos: A Chorus Even years after we graduated high school or left our hometown or eschewed processed snack foods, we couldn’t deny the evidence of our former appetites, each of our fingers a… K-Ming Chang — Aug 24, 2021
first person Welcome To The Dinner Party I’m hungry to throw a dinner party. For now, there’s this. DINNER PARTY—a series of micro essays on food. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya — Aug 24, 2021
first person Change Is Magic: On Cooking and Bodies Science fiction taught me that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In the kitchen, my girlfriend is a witch. V. S. Wells — Aug 23, 2021
first person My Body Is Revived, My Body Is A Lighthouse How do we find dignity in our bodies after it has been taken from us by an abusive partner? SC Dillon — Aug 19, 2021
love + sex Writing Myself into the Erotic When I tell people that I wrote myself a sexual body, I don’t know if they believe me. But our bodies are stories as much as they’re anything else. Shelly Jay Shore — Aug 16, 2021
first person Tarot, Sex, & Hoodoo: A Black Girl’s Guide to the Underworld An exploration of summer, desire, and the senses through the lens of tarot and trans womanhood. Shaadi Devereaux — Aug 12, 2021
love + sex The Night I Learned to Be In My Trans Body My summer hookup with a rich businesswoman in Japan gave me something more valuable than even the room service wagyu steak. Molly Hensley — Aug 10, 2021
