personal essay

lesbian college life

personal essay

first person

Desert Heartbreaker

“I always went the extra mile for you and did so gladly because I loved being around you. You never returned these more concrete gestures, which should’ve been the first…

Luka —

Oct 10, 2018

mental health

personal essay

first person

A Birthday Party No One Else Was Invited To

The first time someone described Casey as having “stalkerish” tendencies, I defended her. For the most part though, I didn’t talk about it.

Abbie —

Oct 8, 2018

people of color

personal essay

first person

Finding Roots Without Hiding My Rainbow

“We don’t talk about our roots as they relate to the heaviness of humid air recycled through our generations on swampy plantations. My family has never talked about it with…

stasia —

Oct 2, 2018

bisexuality

mental health

first person

Brown, Queer, Sad, Strange, and a Skilled Practitioner of Each

I found a different self slowly, learned to exist as if with many different goggles on at once. Always speaking from my mother’s kitchen in the Silicon Valley and, at…

Sagaree Jain —

Sep 26, 2018

bad behavior

personal essay

first person

I Am a Sex Idiot

I feel nothing and everything when I’m with her and I want that more than I want to protect myself. I know this will hurt me, but pain is part…

Molly Priddy —

Sep 25, 2018

exercise

fitness

health

Zumba Sisterhood of the Traveling Hips

In short, Zumba is a dance fitness class set to popular Latin music but honestly, for me, Zumba is more than just that, it’s given me life.

Yvonne —

Sep 14, 2018

bad behavior

butch

first person

Butch Slut

In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so…

Asher Ford —

Aug 30, 2018

bad behavior

personal essay

issues

Take Me Home

“She asks me how it went, I say it went bad. I don’t say much more because she hates hearing about my family like they hate hearing about her. It…

Prue Leith —

Aug 23, 2018

bad behavior

personal essay

first person

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be (Lesbian) Cowboys

“I wanted her to smile at me that way. I wanted her to say my name. This turned out to be easy.”

C.J. Janovy —

Aug 21, 2018

bad behavior

family

first person

She Never Liked Me Anyway

Dementia used to be called madness, I was told.

Kunzes —

Aug 16, 2018

bad behavior

fullscreen

first person

Still Reeling That I’ve Made It

“No one knows, including me, that my overindulgence and competitive drinking is an attempt to assert the only masculinity I know. Toxic.”

Lazarus —

Aug 9, 2018

bad behavior

fullscreen

first person

I Used to Break Into Houses

“I craved that isolation, that feeling of utter aching loneliness that I found inside houses where I did not belong.”

Kelty Dennis —

Aug 3, 2018