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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Voice Lessons
My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Half a Woman on the Side of the Road
Illustration by Ariel Noltimier Strauss.
At a truck stop I can really look my situation in the face. The first trans women I saw as a child were on episodes of ...
Van Gogh Unbound
Art as therapy is explored in this personal essay about loss.
Feelin’ like a Criminal: Trauma in ‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple
‘My Dark Vanessa’ through the music of Fiona Apple, encompassing #MeToo and Lolita along the way.
Normal Boys Don’t Ask So Many Questions
Photo Credit: Strevo via Flickr
Part III: Is Queer Fiction about doing something different?
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Paris, 2013
I’m twenty-one. Alone and cold, I step off the Megabus onto ...
Crossings
Long ago, in the days of banana seats and handlebar fringe, I rode all over town.
Windsor Rd. Dispatch: Boxes
So, I just got a box…
I happened to go and grab my new couch with my buddy Bob from the local IKEA (those little room tableaus are so cool I ...
Real Boys Don’t Think About Thinking So Much
I’m standing outside the dorm rooms. It’s nearly the night, the sky a heavy blue, the trees turning black, the street lamps have come on.
On Dal Lake
It was that night, technically the next day but only moments into it when the bluebottle disturbed my sleep, knocking its clumsy wings and sets of eyes against my window.
Tough Boys Don’t Read About Boys Kissing Boys
I can relate, I can understand but I’m not being allowed to see anything, read anything, experience anything that I want to experience in real life.
Let It Go
Novelists are caught in a double bind. The novel is a sprawling expanse that offers us the scope for detailed excavation and explanation.
A Tale of Two Cities
After dinner, we headed home, oblivious that Miami in general, but 79th Street and Biscayne Boulevard in particular, had gone up in flames.