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I Thought About Leaving Florida — Learning About Our Queer History Convinced Me To Stay
The truth is, as hard as I ride for it now, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine living here anymore, too.
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I Used Instagram Mantras As Therapy — And It Worked
They served as daily messages your best friend should tell you when you’re hurting — and in desperate need of a silver lining.
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Things That Have Mothered Me That Are Not My Mothers
I think of all the things that have taught me lessons and made me the woman I am and feel that, even if my mothers didn’t care for me the way I wanted them to, I still came out on the other side, not unscathed, but survived.
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How it Ends
I begin to realize my relationship is over when my boyfriend starts cleaning his gun in our apartment.
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I Don’t Want To Write Beautiful Things
I am in the business of writing honestly, especially about the things that hurt — heartbreak, disappointment, shame, poverty.
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Gaza, We Carry You With Us
Every few days, Healthcare Workers Watch sends me a google drive folder with lists of names and photos of healthcare workers killed and abducted in Gaza.
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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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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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Finally — A Rainbow That Feels Like Home
I was in California for a conference when I heard about the Club Q shooting.
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It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
You can’t see the stars in the city I live in, so I would spend my nights out on my balcony, drinking, letting my eyesight go slack and drift into the black.
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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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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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Empty Magic: Dinner
When you’ve reached the bottom of anything, you create a hollow.
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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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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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Goodbye to My Gallbladder
Happy Gallbladder Day on Autostraddle dot com! I’m glad you’re here and I’m glad my gallbladder is not.
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At Diners, You Don’t Have To Grow Up
Diners are places of unreality where I can get my food and not worry about being stared at or made fun of.
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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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Untethered: The Lesbians of Shinjuku Ni-chōme, Tokyo
I found a lot of comfort in a sapphic space, even on the other side of the world, and I even found some friends.
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On Staying Sober and What TV Gets Right and Wrong About Alcohol
“I feel like being the only sober person in a group is so much pressure.”