Results for: love is a lie
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My Pinned Tweet Is Solid Proof That Queer Time Travel Exists
There’s a reason it has been my pinned tweet since 2016 — It’s my origin story.
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Rethinking the Power of Movement, One Barbell at a Time
Up until a few months ago, I never felt very strong. I was a fat kid who grew into a fat teenager, and now I’m a fat adult.
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The Soft Butch That Couldn’t (Or: I Got COVID-19 in March 2020 and Never Got Better)
Is a soft butch a soft butch if she can barely hold even herself together? Is a soft butch a soft butch without her swagger?
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The Gayest Things I Did in My Twenties
I’m 23, and I’m not sure if I’m on a date (I’m not).
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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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When Love Is A Matter Of Desperation
Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.
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Overheating: Leaving My Home State of Florida
I have not given up on Florida, even if for now it is best we spend time apart.
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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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MISSED CONNECTION: I’m Sorry I Went to the Gym Instead of Letting You Fuck Me in My Twin Bed
Maybe I would have been something you’d be good at.
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Walking With My Grief
My grief says, listen: you know how to take care of yourself.
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Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story
Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for me. It hurt. I’m grateful.
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We Call It Time Travel
To love someone new is to agree to travel somewhere that doesn’t exist yet together.
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Burgers, Bodies, and Off-Menu Bisexual Swagger
This is about a high school job.
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Finding My Place as a Transmasculine Slut
Since coming out as trans, the idea of sex with cis guys has gotten more complicated: can I fuck a straight man if I’m transmasculine?
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MISSED CONNECTION: You Deleted Your Comment on my Instagram Post
You: Sophomore, bought me a beer the night Obama was re-elected
Me: Freshman, about to have my first relationship with somebody else
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Somebody Loves You Baby: When Patti LaBelle Taught Me Black Femme Desire
After the song’s gentle teasing passes, Patti exclaims, “it’s me,” the somebody who loves you. I think of the women I have loved, despite the ways we have hurt each other.
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Making Accessibility Part of My Home
Because the thing is, of course, that my feelings about all the accessibility stuff aren’t really about the stuff at all; my feelings are about the disabilities themselves.
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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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I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place
On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.
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Crafting The Narrative Of Abuse
Narratives of violence and abuse are so familiar in our history and culture that we hardly notice them. Corinne Manning shares what it took to notice and transform these narratives in their own fiction and their story collection, We Had No Rules.