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Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel

Last August, I was at a monthlong writing residency in Key West, Florida. While there, I did get a lot of writing done, but I also drank approximately 300 beers…

Kristen Arnett —

Aug 26, 2025

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The Parlour

a polaroid of a backyard against a parlour background

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I Hope the Crows Will Miss Me

After three years spent cultivating this yard with care, I’m about to leave it to whoever comes next.

Kristen Arnett —

Aug 6, 2025

Barbie

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Kayla and Kristen on the beach for their engagement photoshoot

gender

I Treat My Wife Like a Barbie Doll and She Likes It

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Kristen Arnett discuss the sliding scale of gender expression and how a femme wife is like having an IRL Barbie.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jul 8, 2025

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lgbt book reviews

In ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ It’s Clowns vs. Capitalism

Arnett’s work is a reminder of something we often shy away from: What is the point of experiencing all of the pains of the human condition if we can’t, at…

Stef Rubino —

Mar 17, 2025

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travel

We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!

As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than…

Kristen Arnett —

Jan 7, 2025

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first person

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

Bastard Out of Carolina was the book that made me want to become a writer.

Kristen Arnett —

Nov 11, 2024

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halloween

Kristen Arnett Rates Her Past Halloween Costumes

Like many homosexuals, I enjoy dressing up. Is there a theme? Terrific! Costumes, wigs? The freakier the better.

Kristen Arnett —

Oct 10, 2024

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Kristen and Kayla taking a selfie in the sun and Kristen and Kayla kissing at Pride, overlaid with a set of engagement rings

relationships

Asking My Fiancée Questions I Don’t Know the Answers to a Month Before Our Wedding

“Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex?”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jan 10, 2024

book bans

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first person

Before and After the Library

Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.

Kristen Arnett —

Oct 7, 2023

autostraddle fundraising

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straddleverse

Queerness Is Messy, I Am Messy and That’s a Very Good Thing

It would have been impossible for me to write the novels and stories that I’ve created without the help of Autostraddle.

Kristen Arnett —

Mar 23, 2023

Interview With My Significant Other

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Photo 1: Kristen kisses Kayla with her hand on her throat. Photo 2: Kayla kisses Kristen's cheek in front of the castle at Disney World. Photo 3: Kristen and Kayla make out in an elevator

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Interview With My Fiancé: Kristen

In which we talk for a weirdly long time about who does laundry but also Yellowjackets, why a punk cover of “Mambo Italiano” is “our song,” and our sex drives.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 14, 2023

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society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Noted Lesbian Author Kristen Arnett Was a Clue on Jeopardy, the Category Was “Get Stuffed”

Also, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union see Zaya off to her winter formal, how our definition of “healthy” fails Black women, and did we mention we got interviewed by CNN?

Carmen Phillips —

Jan 31, 2023