personal essay

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greatest hits

first person

All The Things I Should’ve Said In My Rural Town

“The first girl I ever kissed spent her summers on her uncle’s farm, helping him bale hay. She would come back to school with the insides of her wrists all…

amber —

Nov 18, 2015

brittani nichols

greatest hits

first person

I Demand to Be Sexualized

This is a story about how the Buzzfeed series “You Do You” made me feel like someone might wanna do me.

Brittani —

Nov 18, 2015

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personal essay

first person

Making the Dive and Loving Myself Dangerously

“But, like embracing the woman I am, I couldn’t stay back from the allure of the waves. The pull of my trans-ness and queerness, of course, would always be stronger,…

Gabrielle Bellot —

Nov 16, 2015

baby-making

greatest hits

parenting & family

Donor Siblings: The Happy Unexpected Bonus of Lesbian Parenthood

“Suddenly I was looking at all these little boxes online, little question marks where the faces would be, each one representing another human that shared half of my daughter’s DNA.”

Donna Rizham —

Nov 11, 2015

diary of a SAD girl

greatest hits

first person

Winter Is Coming: Diary of a SAD Girl #1

“Time Change Sunday is my personal gateway to hell. It gets dark earlier (and then earlier and earlier). It gets cold in the morning and night (and then stays cold…

Heather Hogan —

Nov 2, 2015

fullscreen

personal essay

first person

Who Is It That Afflicts You?

Witchcraft, trials, death and the Devil: how the long road of history winds from 1692 Salem, MA to 2015.

Rachel —

Oct 28, 2015

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hair and beauty

first person

Natural Hair Was My Final Frontier to Self-Love as a Black Trans Woman

After removing my damaged locks, I realized that that was the easy part. Removing the Eurocentric straight- haired image of femininity embedded in my brain was much harder.

Drew —

Oct 27, 2015

grown-ups

personal essay

first person

I’m Single, I’m 36, and I Think That’s Fine

“Becoming secure with being alone has relieved the frantic pressure to believe that every new person I meet might be the next person with whom I enter into a significant…

Meaghan O’Malley —

Oct 26, 2015

Jasika Nicole

personal essay

crafts & diy projects

Yes, I Made It: Slow Fashion and Making My Own Clothes Changed My Life

Sewing began as a creative outlet for me, an activity that married my love for theatre with my love for DIY, but it has since progressed into a more nuanced…

Jasika Nicole —

Oct 21, 2015

greatest hits

identity

first person

I’m Just A Small-Town Lesbian Wearing Flannel, Building Community

“But for change to happen, for the community I want to grow, someone has to stay. Someone has to wear the flannel not just because of its function.”

Molly Priddy —

Oct 14, 2015

Indigenous People's Day

native american

culture

Love and Resistance: Reflections on Queer Survivance This Indigenous Peoples’ Day

As folks flock to department store sales and many more to parades honoring the man, the legend, and symbol of settler colonialism, Indigenous people from across Turtle Island come together…

Taylor Payer —

Oct 12, 2015

baby-making

gay moms

first person

Missing Someone Gone While Raising Someone New

They call a child born after a loss a rainbow baby. The storm left a devastating aftermath, but this rainbow is bringing us daily joy.

Caitlin Zinsser —

Oct 7, 2015