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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: I Will Answer Your Questions, If You Listen Closely

viengsamai

Jul 2, 2021
literature

Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way

Riese

Jan 15, 2021
lgbt history

I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons

Jenn Shapland

Feb 20, 2020
literature

Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist

Riese

Jan 17, 2020
literature

Things I Read That I Love #296: She is Also Tiny and Platinum Blond With a Look of Engineered Disaster About Her

Riese

Aug 30, 2019
literature

Things I Read That I Love #295: Put All Your Deaths, Accidents and Diseases Up Front

Riese

Aug 16, 2019
literature

Things I Read That I Love #293: Names That Sound Dreamed Up For a Goop Collaboration with Lemony Snicket

Riese

Jul 19, 2019
politics + activism

Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People

Rachel

Jan 24, 2019
literature

Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing

Riese

Jun 8, 2018
literature

Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.

Riese

Oct 13, 2017

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An illustration of a brown person with short black hair holding the hand of a brown person with long black hair, talking to a supernatural creature who is explaining something to them. They’re sitting in a magical forest area.

poetry and fiction

Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: I Will Answer Your Questions, If You Listen Closely

You want to know where you came from, is that it? Do not be embarrassed. Nature did not see motherhood in me, either.

viengsamai —

Jul 2, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way

Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so…

Riese —

Jan 15, 2021

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personal essay

lgbt history

I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons

Personal icons from Greta Garbo to Jenny Lewis: how we come by them, fall in love with them, and want to be like them. Who’s to say whether we’re really…

Jenn Shapland —

Feb 20, 2020

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longform journalism

literature

Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist

Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!

Riese —

Jan 17, 2020

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longform journalism

literature

Things I Read That I Love #296: She is Also Tiny and Platinum Blond With a Look of Engineered Disaster About Her

Topics include my favorite TV show Are You The One?, crossword puzzles, air conditioning, an online public meltdown, dooce, swimming, How Things Are at Deadspin, pregnancy, Bumble and so much…

Riese —

Aug 30, 2019

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Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #295: Put All Your Deaths, Accidents and Diseases Up Front

Topics include the consolations of the mask, who the actual “founding fathers” are, the unexpected perils of asynchronous communication, a romantic investment in bohemia, company culture as per a crisis…

Riese —

Aug 16, 2019

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literature

Things I Read That I Love #293: Names That Sound Dreamed Up For a Goop Collaboration with Lemony Snicket

Topics include the uncanny valley of online dating, the explosion of streaming TV, white privilege, weddings, the influencers of Byron Bay, Buffalo Wild Wings as a secret gay bar, BDSM…

Riese —

Jul 19, 2019

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donald trump

politics + activism

Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People

In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back…

Rachel —

Jan 24, 2019

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longform journalism

literature

Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing

Topics include Christian films, NXivm, Caitlyn Jenner, Sesame Street, blood stain pattern analysis, XXXTentacion, The Real World, con-artist Anna Delvey, plus-size clothing and so much more!

Riese —

Jun 8, 2018

longform

Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.

Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!

Riese —

Oct 13, 2017