Results for: \"queer kid stuff\"
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Untethered: Visiting Other Peoples’ Families and Unhinged Horse Lesbians
She grabbed my hand and smashed a tomato with her homemade caesar dressing into my palm.
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How Fertility Treatments Got Me Back in Touch With My Queerness
I never imagined I’d have to get an IUI, or that there would be a silver lining.
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I Played Stardew Valley With My New Name for a Year Before Announcing It Publicly
The more I played, the more characters I made friends with, the more I liked my new name.
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Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?
As we start to shift the narrative about raw honesty online about motherhood, I wish that queer moms opened up more about how hard it is to create their inner circle.
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.
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An Interview With My Dad About Baseball
And about being the parent of a trans kid.
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Slow Takes: “Pen15” and Embracing Alternate Girlhoods
Watching the first season during what I considered my second puberty was miserable. I could acknowledge its effectiveness, but I felt alienated.
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Investigating the Bionicle-to-Trans Pipeline
More than a few fans I spoke with did say that if it weren’t for Bionicle they may not have come to understand their gender when they did.
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Measuring My Queerness By Different Therapists I’ve Had
If I had a dollar for every therapist I’ve had, I’d probably have enough money to buy a relatively decent meal at a nearby bodega.
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I Compartmentalized My Life — Now I’m Opening the Boxes
I’m ashamed that I rejected real love that I had in my life because I couldn’t lose the security of heterosexuality and the validation I thought it bestowed on me.
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My Sci-Fi Girl Summer, Explained
It was a lot like coming out later in life, but this time instead of going to a bunch of lesbian parties and hooking up with strangers, I’m staying up until 4 a.m. Googling shit like “how is Loki still alive.”
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That Time I Binged “Freaks and Geeks” While My Stalker Ex Held Me Captive
Kim and Lindsay’s friendship is the real love story of this series. I want them to end up as friends like everyone wants the leads to end up together in a romantic comedy. I shake with it.
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On 2018’s Britney Spears Diet Pepsi Cans and the Most Intense Gaslighting of My Career
I used to love grocery shopping after my divorce. I would buy things that only I liked.
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Asshole, Autistic and Other A-Words of My Love Life
Something was deeply wrong with me, something shameful. Turns out, the truth is more complicated.
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15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking
Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on the tip of the tongue, with high notes of bright genders named like quarks.
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My Jackie: On Yellowjackets and a Missing Friend
We met when I was 16 and she was 17. We weren’t dating, but we might as well have been. I’ve been thinking about her more than usual lately, ever since I found myself obsessed with Yellowjackets.
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Seeing Bikini Kill Made Me Feel Like I Was 16 Again
Bikini Kill opened a door for me, a door that has stayed open ever since.
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Here’s How Our Lives Have Improved Since Quitting Drinking: A Candid Conversation Between Sober Queers
“I love that sober sex is so much better for me. Even masturbating is better.”
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Coming Out Twice: On Being Gay and Asexual in a World Without Representation
Every asexual person has a moment when the recognition sets in. Those moments would come a lot easier if asexuality was more prominent in pop culture.
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My Parents Made Me Gay
Being focused on women never seemed remarkable to me. I grew up in a household with my mom, my younger sister, and my dad, so even if we were just being fair, 75% of our time was focused on women. And we were not fair.