If I and other people with certain disabilities are going to survive, we need care — and not from ourselves. Because when it gets really bad for me, self-care is…
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s…
It’s about queer identity and finding happiness and purpose in life and living for yourself not for others and yes, loneliness. It’s a coming of age story, but for twenty-somethings…
You didn’t expect to have your heart broken and healed and broken and healed, over and over and over again, when you started watching a sci-fi western for the kissing…
This week we all looked each other in the eyes and screamed, HOW DO WE EVEN DO THIS AND WHO ARE WE, EVEN? We talked about life-goals and the patriarchy,…
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