personal essay

california

Miniseries

first person

Wild Child West: The End of the Road

Now I start over, and rebuild, and confront fear and learn to drive alone and figure out how to secure Eli in the loft so I can still snuggle with…

Carmen —

Oct 5, 2015

#showerbeer

Lists/Top 10s

first person

Tales From The Driver’s Seat: 7 Actual Experiences I Had While Learning To Drive at 25

“He gave me “the benefit of the doubt” that traffic was indeed too rough to allow me, a braless 25-year-old nervously driving a station wagon, to shift over.”

Carmen —

Oct 1, 2015

personal essay

Pope Francis

first person

I Was Invited to See the Pope Arrive at the White House and Made It a Moment of Trans Visibility

Back in August I received an invitation to the Papal arrival ceremony …a story went up, was picked up by Breitbart, and Fox News took it from there. Before long…

Vivian —

Sep 25, 2015

Miniseries

personal essay

first person

Wild Child West: We Both Will Be Received in Graceland

I went to Tennessee and found freedom and a sense of adventure. And the best keychain ever.

Carmen —

Sep 17, 2015

apps

online dating

first person

I Don’t Know How To Make Friends: The Tinder Blues

Tinder is not a very good place for making friends.

Kate —

Sep 17, 2015

intimate partner violence

personal essay

first person

She Wouldn’t Give Me Up

“I remember everything: what normal felt like all through college in my relationship with her — an attractive and charismatic woman who was also a compulsive liar and an abusive…

Allison McCarthy —

Sep 15, 2015

baby-making

gay moms

queer pregnancy

The End, The Beginning: Notes from the Last Weeks of Pregnancy

We’re almost there! The interminable countdown to actually having a real, live baby is almost over!

Caitlin Zinsser —

Sep 14, 2015

lesbian travel

Miniseries

first person

Wild Child West: (Not) Going Home

I went to New Jersey and back, and I had a million billion emotions.

Carmen —

Sep 14, 2015

lesbian travel

Miniseries

first person

Wild Child West: I Am Gonna Do This

This week I will pack up my (brand new!) car, and I will probably cry, a lot, and I will put some stuff in the mail, and I will take…

Carmen —

Sep 10, 2015

christianity

family

first person

At The Diner With My Father

Sometimes the only way to remember the good times is to recreate them yourself.

Princess —

Aug 31, 2015

personal essay

sex work

movie reviews

A Trans Woman of Color Responds to the Trauma of “Tangerine”

“Why is it that trans women of color have to experience so much violence to remember that they have each other’s back?”

Morgan Collado —

Aug 26, 2015

autostraddle kits

personal essay

home

Nomadic Living in Unusual Spaces: The Kit

Calling all wandering queers! I’ve written you a survival guide for the next time you’re trying to move onto someone’s back porch.

Carmen —

Aug 21, 2015