first person How I Learned To Touch Again After Trauma I thought I had to choose between being a survivor and being sensual. Titeänyä Rodríguez Oct 17, 2025
first person “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. Drew Burnett Gregory — Jun 10, 2022
lgbt pride I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose. Katie — Jun 9, 2022
first person What To Know Before You Get a Dog When you first meet her, scared and sick and alone, you’ll know that if you don’t take her with you she’ll probably die. Of course, she’s going to die either… Gabrielle Korn — Jun 2, 2022
theater Slow Takes: A Tribute to Zoom Theatre The story of how I joined theatre is like if the Disney Channel was dark and gay. Drew Burnett Gregory — Jun 2, 2022
first person 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). Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya — May 30, 2022
first person I Beat My Girlfriend at Scrabble and We Never Played Again Scrabble has always been an exciting way to show that my English degree might have meant something. Julie Gentile — May 27, 2022
first person When I Stopped Apologizing for My Fatness, I Started to Heal I had to figure out what it meant to reconnect with a body I’d always been afraid of. Simone Person — May 17, 2022
first person How Masturbation Helped Me Accept Myself as an Intersex Lesbian I finally understood that the “normal” I was seeking was mythical and that my body was beautiful and precious the way it was. Guest — May 16, 2022
