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Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

Horoscopes can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and working toward personal growth; HORRORscopes can let us avoid that…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

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Where Road Trips Meet Rituals

Once the itinerary is printed and your bag is packed, travel forces us out of our own limitations, the boundaries we create in our heads.

Sarah Alexander —

Aug 14, 2019

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The Worst Weekend

One time my ex took us on a weekend getaway to a notorious suicide hotspot so that I could take a video of them breaking rocks on the beach with…

Jess —

Aug 13, 2019

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When Your Face Reflects the Mirror

Traveling to see family in Taiwan, the sudden change in beauty standards forced me to contemplate my own. The same features that made me so ordinary at home made me…

Artemie Li —

Aug 12, 2019

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Being Queer in My Mother Tongue

I keep looking for labels. When I first read about nonbinary identities, I think of my family, and whether there might exist a word in Polish that means the same…

Kinga O —

Aug 8, 2019

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Bites

“I ate lemon-filled doughnuts with a woman who made my head spin. I decided that it was her commitment to eating good food, like me, that drew me to her.…

stasia —

Aug 7, 2019

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Austin City Limits

When my wife walked out on me, we’d had a trip to Austin booked for months. We decided to take it anyway, and this is how I remember it —…

Emelie B —

Aug 6, 2019

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Long Distance

We wanted to learn all there was to learn about each other, as crushes do — but the distance meant we actually did!

Lisa Franklin —

Aug 5, 2019

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How to Care for an Air Plant

I suppose the truth is my home, then, is in transition — in the in-between of leaving home, and finding another, in that bittersweet knowledge that nothing is forever.

ananyaa —

Aug 1, 2019

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Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

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Being Queer in My Mother Tongue

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How to Care for an Air Plant

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