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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

Cannibals, like lesbians, are feared for their selective appetites.

Mallory

Oct 14, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about…

Bee Beardsworth

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Oct 7, 2024

instagram posts that visually reprseent the algorithm

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard

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Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie

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Sep 11, 2024

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

Super Size Me really fucked me up as a kid. I am a fat, bummed…

Gyasi Hall

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Sep 5, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…

Bee Beardsworth —

Oct 7, 2024

first person

The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard —

Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie —

Sep 11, 2024

death is sad

personal essay

a black Subaru is parked on an open road with a blue sky with perfect white clouds above it

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I Spent the Summer Screaming in My Car, What About You?

When the sound of a scream leaves my throat, it is a choice. I am never accidentally screaming. I scream in the car and it is on purpose.

Vanessa —

Aug 24, 2021

Dinner Party

Illustration of a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos on a background of single cheetos with scattered dust on a yellow background.

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Hot Cheetos: A Chorus

Even years after we graduated high school or left our hometown or eschewed processed snack foods, we couldn’t deny the evidence of our former appetites, each of our fingers a…

K-Ming Chang —

Aug 24, 2021

Dinner Party

all illustrations for this series by A. Andrews

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Welcome To The Dinner Party

I’m hungry to throw a dinner party. For now, there’s this. DINNER PARTY—a series of micro essays on food.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 24, 2021

hot trans summer

trans

Two people baking and forming a heart with the batter. One person's hands surround the other's hands.

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Change Is Magic: On Cooking and Bodies

Science fiction taught me that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In the kitchen, my girlfriend is a witch.

V. S. Wells —

Aug 23, 2021

hot trans summer

intimate partner violence

The image of a lighthouse with a color gradient of orange to purple on it.

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My Body Is Revived, My Body Is A Lighthouse

How do we find dignity in our bodies after it has been taken from us by an abusive partner?

SC Dillon —

Aug 19, 2021

fanfiction

hot trans summer

love + sex

Writing Myself into the Erotic

When I tell people that I wrote myself a sexual body, I don’t know if they believe me. But our bodies are stories as much as they’re anything else.

Shelly Jay Shore —

Aug 16, 2021

hot trans summer

tarot

A dark-skinned trans woman's face with the colors of orange, purple, and pink overlaid.

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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.

Shaadi Devereaux —

Aug 12, 2021

hot trans summer

lesbian sex

A photo of a fruit platter with a purple to orange gradient on it.

love + sex

The Night I Learned to Be In My Trans Body

My summer hookup with a rich businesswoman in Japan gave me something more valuable than even the room service wagyu steak.

Molly Hensley —

Aug 10, 2021

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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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The Gay Algorithm

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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The Gay Algorithm

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

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