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I’m an Adult and I Have No Idea How to Make Friends

I don’t know how to make friends, but I’m going to try. I’m going to do it with apps and technology, so that the process is replicable for the rest…

Kate —

Aug 20, 2015

greatest hits

latina

first person

Taco Tuesday: Finding Home Again

In the very first edition of a biweekly column all about tacos, Yvonne writes about her personal connection to the delicious, Mexican super food and her search for damn good…

Yvonne —

Aug 19, 2015

bisexuality

mental health

first person

Melancholia In The Sunshine

“It isn’t until the summer, when the frost melts and the icee man comes calling and the pool is open and the yard (however ridden with stubborn weeds) starts to…

Hannah Hodson —

Aug 18, 2015

androgynous fashion

journey to the center

queer fashion

Journey To The Center: The Clothes Coming Out of My Closet

“It was more like breaking off a cast than ripping off a Band Aid. In a mound of gauze and drape, I buried the certain kind of girl I could…

Adrian —

Aug 17, 2015

greatest hits

grown-ups

queer pregnancy

Panic and Parenthood: Having A Baby, Being Torn Apart, and Putting Myself Back Together

“In one of my college psych courses we had to try to use conditioning to get rid of bad habits. My classmates tried to stop biting their nails. I tried…

Lucy Hallowell —

Jul 27, 2015

baby-making

gay moms

parenting & family

Where Hope and Grief Can Co-Exist

How do we both honor our child’s memory and prepare to open our hearts again to a new child?

Caitlin Zinsser —

Jul 21, 2015

"personality cult"

advice

first person

The Story of “No”

This year, from April 20th until June 12th, I made some variation of “no” my Facebook status every day. It was just something I found vaguely funny but by the…

Brittani —

Jul 1, 2015

#blacklivesmatter

christianity

first person

We Cry With Charleston: How I’m Healing as a Black Queer Christian

“Now more than ever, I think it’s important to say alabanza to those who were slain, to lift their names up in prayer and to remind those of us still…

Ari —

Jun 19, 2015

baby-making

gay moms

queer pregnancy

Pregnant Beginnings. Literally.

Ah, pregnant beginnings. Literally and figuratively. The first trimester of this rainbow pregnancy (yes, that’s actually the term for a pregnancy after a loss). Is it possible to grieve and…

Caitlin Zinsser —

Jun 4, 2015

homophobia

personal essay

society + culture

No One Can Stop Us: Black Lesbian Event Page Attacked by Schoolboys, Flooded with Support

This wasn’t just an attack on a Facebook invite. For many, this was an attack similar to those they experience in the real world navigating as Black Lesbians and in…

Carolyn Wysinger —

May 19, 2015

gender identity

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