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How To Navigate Feeling Like a ‘Queer Imposter’

Personal identity is always fluid and shaped by our surroundings.

Summer Tao

Jun 4, 2026

gender

What Mattee Jim, Navajo Trans Elder, Teaches Us About Remembering

This #TransDayOfRemembrance, trans lives are more than a list of names. We are vessels of ancestral memory.

xoai pham

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Nov 20, 2020

A troubled-looking girl biting her lip as she looks at the camera

coming out

You Need Help: I Just Came Out, and I Feel Weird

Coming out isn’t a magic trick that makes us suddenly understand ourselves completely.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Nov 17, 2020

A magnifying mirror reflected in a wall mounted bathroom mirror

first person

I Stopped Tweezing in Quarantine and Realized I’m Nonbinary

On the 24th day of quarantine, I turned on all of the lamps in my room and took off all my clothes. Then I stood in front of the mirror…

Rae Nieves

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Nov 10, 2020

An unsure-looking white person with a scarf tied into their long hair and wearing a choker looks off to the side and bites their lip nervously

coming out

You Need Help: I Never Imagined I’d Live Past 20. Now What?

Babe, I promise you’re right on time. In 2020 I can’t be sure of hardly anything, but I am sure that you are good. You belong right where you are,…

Adrian

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Oct 27, 2020

society + culture

The Pandemic is Trauma for Trans Disabled People

An exploration of the pandemic experiences of trans disabled people with a focus on trauma and survivorhood.

Noorulann Shahid

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Oct 16, 2020

an image of a photo of the author's head in peaked military cap, and bare Black shoulders. there is a pink flower blossoming over his left shoulder and one cropping up out of his right collarbone. there is a blur behind him of several stacked versions of his head, unfolding to the right of the graphic.

society + culture

Everything Is Subject to Change…

I idolized Shane, and the only trans man in the series, Max. I wanted to mirror their everyday existence. I wanted to emulate their cool. I wanted the attraction they…

cat jones

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Oct 11, 2020

a collection of faces and figures flooded in orange, bright green and hot pink, are scattered over a scene of crumbling pillars and doorways. and in between these figures are the gestures of the wings and petals, floating throughout.

society + culture

The Labyrinth Closet

We’re always coming out. As an: anime fanatic, manga-collecting Pokémon plushie hoarder; as a giddy, youthful ray of sunshine and not just the dense, American Dream-deprived immigrant, prompted over-thinker —…

féi hernandez

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Oct 11, 2020

a collage of 9 queer heads and bodies scattered across a peach background looking HOTT. all of these figures are posing to show off their current best iteration of themselves. the graphic style includes filters to that make all of the colors look brighter and deeper, and every figure has several versions of the same photo, stacked into a blur behind them.

society + culture

Coming Out Roundtable: Like A Can Of Pringles, Once You Pop The Fun Don’t Stop

We’re getting ready for Coming Out Day. “I also passive aggressively came out to my parents by posting a Facebook status on National Coming Out Day sixish years ago? They…

the team

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Oct 11, 2020

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How To Navigate Feeling Like a ‘Queer Imposter’

What Mattee Jim, Navajo Trans Elder, Teaches Us About Remembering

You Need Help: I Just Came Out, and I Feel Weird

I Stopped Tweezing in Quarantine and Realized I’m Nonbinary

You Need Help: I Never Imagined I’d Live Past 20. Now What?

The Pandemic is Trauma for Trans Disabled People

Everything Is Subject to Change…

The Labyrinth Closet

Coming Out Roundtable: Like A Can Of Pringles, Once You Pop The Fun Don’t Stop

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