Results for: straight people watch
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After We Watched Barbie
Transitioning to a man in a predominately white world makes me resentful. Genders are floating worlds, and I am doing gender somewhere I do not belong.
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As a Trans Woman Getting Into Stand-Up Comedy, Can I Avoid Jokes About My Identity?
My greatest fear in doing comedy is being a hack.
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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.
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Every Life on This Page All at Once
I’m burdened by unlived lives, hovering within my dreams, just behind my pupils.
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Calling Myself a Lesbian Has Been a Lesson in Self Acceptance
I think this is always who I’ve been, and the other words were the ones I was trying on to see if they fit.
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PCOS and Queerness: A Bodily Haunting
Despite being one of, if not the, most common endocrine disorder in those classified as women by the medical system, there is barely any research on PCOS.
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Slow Takes: “12 Dates of Christmas” and When Transphobia Makes You a Chaos Demon
If you want to live in a reality show, go ahead and sow chaos, but if you’d rather have a romcom, you have to let go.
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In Queer Horror Anthology “It Came From the Closet,” Carmen Maria Machado Considers Jennifer’s Body
On queerbaiting, bisexuality, and Jennifer’s Body. This essay is an exclusive excerpt from the queer horror anthology It Came From the Closet, on sale next week.
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Just Waiting To Be Found
For my entire childhood, I spent every summer in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Working Out at a Strength Gym Has Been Great, but These Exercises Make Me Want To Scream
Even though I believe in complete body liberation and fat freedom, I don’t like to talk about my “I’ve been fat my whole life” baggage.
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Untethered: In Pittsburgh Everyone Knows Everyone and I’m Sure I Do Too
But face-blindess is a bitch.
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What Drag Has Taught Me
Every time I have gotten the opportunity to do mediocre drag as a beginner, I have had some of the most fun a person can have.
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Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
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How I Gradually Found My Queer Community in Connecticut
There were a few months where my mother, who lives back in Bangladesh, stopped talking to me after stumbling across some essays I’d written about my queerness. This confusing and heartbreaking time was when I truly understood the value of having a queer chosen family and support system.
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Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
Horror movies are for the depressed and anxious gays.
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The Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans
Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.
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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
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To All the Hot People I Met on My Cross-Country Drive
Forty hours of podcasts, musical numbers, and ice coffee stops later, and I’ve successfully made the painstaking move from Los Angeles to Orlando, Florida.
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They Should Have Sent A Poet
“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”
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Untethered: The Gelatinous Descent
My therapist asked me to please read Unmasking Autism and referred me to someone who does ADHD and autism screening.