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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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The System Operates As Designed
Burnout is not simple tiredness. It is malaise and unexplained pain. It is a theft of spirit and the creative body.
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The Place for Smiles
Back in those days, I thought drinking was the most interesting thing about me.
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“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness
This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.
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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.
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The Numbers in My Phone
I tried for a long time not to have a smart phone.
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Three Sober Queers on Their First Drinks and Workplace Drinking Culture
“It’s funny, much like coming out, I always look back on these moments and think ‘Ah that’s when I should have known I had a problem’.”
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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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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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Here’s What I Learned By Choosing to Step Away from Productivity For a Whole Day
I did nothing “productive” for a whole day: no email, no phone calls, no work, no cleaning, nothing that fuels my inherent Capricorn desire to win at Capitalism. Here’s what happened.
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Dispatches From My First Few Weeks in Florida
Everyone keeps telling me the correct way to outrun an alligator, but I keep forgetting. Also, everything about Disney World sounds made up.
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An Interview With My Dad About Baseball
And about being the parent of a trans kid.
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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: I Will Answer Your Questions, If You Listen Closely
You want to know where you came from, is that it? Do not be embarrassed. Nature did not see motherhood in me, either.
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On Reconciliation, Reconnection, and Acceptance
Spending time in the kitchen and learning how to cook the comfort food of my childhood has helped me connect to my mother in ways I never expected.
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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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Why Discovering Your Trans Identity As A Disabled Person Can Be So Confusing
Society painted me as a burden, and undeserving of autonomy. I have taken that paintbrush and created a beautiful life where being disabled isn’t a bad thing.
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When Thin is a Trans Requirement
Body fat is central to how we perceive gender. So what does that mean if you’re a trans person?
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How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body
“Everytime a healthcare provider said it to me, it came out of their mouth like that SpongeBob meme. LiStEn tO yOuR bOdY. Well, and I was tired of hearing what my body had to say.”
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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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Wild Cravings: Chicken Salad, Shrimp, and Soup
For my final (for now) installment of Wild Cravings, I leave you with three food memories set in Virginia, Norway, and New York.