First Person

• Poetry and Fiction

Recent First Person posts

“Dancing With the Stars” Fantasies I’ve Had About Various Phases of My Queer Life

Homoerotic Friendships, Mosquita Y Mari, and the Things We Never Said

Why I’m Craving a Thanksgiving Sandwich 364 Days a Year

We Need QTBIPOC Land Healing Projects

Working Out at a Strength Gym Has Been Great, but These Exercises Make Me Want To Scream

My Anxiety Turns Life Into a Horror Movie

Slow Takes: “Pen15” and Embracing Alternate Girlhoods

How it Ends

Alone but Not Lonely at the Precipice of 30

Black Girls Are Always at the Center of Horror

The Seduction of Aliens

Here’s Why You Should Get a Nude Portrait of Yourself Done

Empty Magic: Dessert

I Rediscovered Fanfiction This Year and It Reconnected Me to My Inner Teen

Confessions of a Ghost

Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One

Empty Magic: Dinner

Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover

How Bottoming Helped Me Heal From Sexual Trauma

To All the Hot People I Met on My Cross-Country Drive