Results for: queer parenting
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I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One
“I’m an easy host, a rake, a card, I’m bejeweled, I have a gay face. I want to love and be loved. If reaching is a kind of being, it’s a reaching toward.”
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Five Years Ago, Lesbian Visibility Day Was the Best Day of My Life
I presented my lesbianism to the cis world like a child showing her parents a new drawing.
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The Unexpected Loneliness of Getting Divorced
I wondered if my friends were afraid that the honesty it takes to face that a relationship needs to end might be contagious. If they stood too close to me, they might realize they wanted to take a closer look in that mirror too.
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A Letter to My Ex-Best Friend This Pride
I will always love you, and I know you will always love me. Sometimes love isn’t enough.
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I’m Asexual and I Prefer to Have Sex With Myself
I finally realized that it is completely possible to be asexual, experience some sexual attraction and enjoy sex — even if you’re only having sex with yourself.
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Untethered: On Living Alone, Reimagining Family
I’ve been dredging through the remains of my life since my ex and I started living in this house four years ago.
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Scenes From a Jersey Diner
This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated.
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For My 30th Birthday, I Moved Back to New York
Essays about turning 30 are almost as annoying as essays about moving to or from New York.
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Untethered: I Have To Stop Getting Engayged or Married on Holidays
My ex and I mutually proposed to each other on Christmas last year.
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How To Leave a Life
Leaving always compels you to look back, a final glimpse, a glance at what exactly you are leaving before you make the jump to part.
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High School and Everything After
You can’t be gay in 1999. But I’m not, so that’s just fine.
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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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Meet Me at Flanigan’s
When I think of what the diner experience is in South Florida, I think of Flanigan’s.
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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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“Dancing With the Stars” Fantasies I’ve Had About Various Phases of My Queer Life
As my opening number, I’m imaging a quickstep with JoJo Siwa. I have no explanation for this.
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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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In Remembrance of My Queer Nigerian Christmas
That Christmas with queer family reminded me that multiple possibilities exist even in the darkest of places.
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Untethered: Into the Woods
The woods are Escape. They have always held my personal ideal of “freedom” cradled in their branches.
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“When I Got Sober So Many Relationships Just Ended”: Sober Queers on Friendships and Community
“I came to realize I am a terrible parent when I’m drunk.”
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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.