First Person

• Poetry and Fiction

Recent First Person posts

I’m Watching Xena: Warrior Princess for the First Time, and My Wife Is What Makes It Special

I Want My Queer Representation To Be Messy — Even When it Comes to Real People

PCOS and Queerness: A Bodily Haunting

To Be Trans Is To Refuse Borders

Untethered: I Can Still Hear My Ex Mother-in-Law’s Voice

Uncertainty and Disquiet: My Non-Consensual Childhood Circumcision as a Trans Woman

I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One

I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming

Untethered: The Designated Girl-Son

They Should Have Sent A Poet

Transition Is Allowed To Feel Bad Sometimes

Untethered: You Need Help

The Big And

Untethered: A Great Lady

Queering Time: The Offering of ‘Kairos’

For My 30th Birthday, I Moved Back to New York

Untethered: Mercury Retrogayde

Gaza, We Carry You With Us

The Unexpected Loneliness of Getting Divorced

Untethered: I Have To Stop Getting Engayged or Married on Holidays