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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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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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On *NSYNC and Being a Lesbian Who Loves Boy Bands
If you had to make me into a pie chart, being queer and loving *NSYNC are basically the same size.
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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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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 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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Just Waiting To Be Found
For my entire childhood, I spent every summer in the Appalachian Mountains.
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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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To Be Trans Is To Refuse Borders
In 2022, I brought my girlfriend daddy to my homeland.
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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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You and Me Against the World
The first time I told you I was queer. You didn’t speak to me for 24 hours.
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I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming
Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.
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Top Surgery, Magnolia Trees, and the Trans Art of Letting Go
What’s transness if not a long lesson in choosing which beautiful things are meant for you?
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The Seduction of Aliens
When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.
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An Exorcism of Sorts
The haunted house persists in horror media for a reason.
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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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My Gender is Maximalism
As these queer and trans bodies took up space on my walls, my queer and trans body felt free to take up space in the home itself.
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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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Tarot, Sex, & Hoodoo: A Black Girl’s Guide to the Underworld
An exploration of summer, desire, and the senses through the lens of tarot and trans womanhood.
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Journaling With My Grief
I have three journals. I no longer have my dad. I’ll write this story for the rest of my life.