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Six Tips for Navigating Chicago as a (Baby) Black Queer

Tip #2 – “Don’t Trust the Internet.”

Tiara Dee —

Aug 27, 2019

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Looking for Love in the Wrong Place

“We were talking about all the places we wanted to visit, all the people we wanted to be. When she asked to kiss me, I said yes.”

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee —

Aug 26, 2019

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Tourist in the Homeland

I traveled to West and North Africa to find myself, my family, my people. Gender dysphoria met the diaspora and my idea of Blackness, home, and identity were not as…

Lazarus —

Aug 22, 2019

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Militantly Optimistic on the 5

A road trip with my introverted wife and extroverted baby through the reddest part of California made me question my relationship with strangers (and my obsession with Rick Steves).

Kelsey McConnell —

Aug 21, 2019

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Who Do You Meet On the Greyhound?

A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass and a journal.

Ocean Capewell —

Aug 20, 2019

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Like a House on Fire

Everything looks better when you’re in love, and Nevada City was no exception.

Betsy —

Aug 19, 2019

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An Invisible Stranger in My Home

You’ve probably seen billboards advertising an exotic trip to the country where I was born. In those pictures, the sea is always a clear turquoise – like glass – and…

Erin Rhys —

Aug 15, 2019

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Where Road Trips Meet Rituals

Once the itinerary is printed and your bag is packed, travel forces us out of our own limitations, the boundaries we create in our heads.

Sarah Alexander —

Aug 14, 2019

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The Worst Weekend

One time my ex took us on a weekend getaway to a notorious suicide hotspot so that I could take a video of them breaking rocks on the beach with…

Jess —

Aug 13, 2019

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When Your Face Reflects the Mirror

Traveling to see family in Taiwan, the sudden change in beauty standards forced me to contemplate my own. The same features that made me so ordinary at home made me…

Artemie Li —

Aug 12, 2019

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Being Queer in My Mother Tongue

I keep looking for labels. When I first read about nonbinary identities, I think of my family, and whether there might exist a word in Polish that means the same…

Kinga O —

Aug 8, 2019

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Bites

“I ate lemon-filled doughnuts with a woman who made my head spin. I decided that it was her commitment to eating good food, like me, that drew me to her.…

stasia —

Aug 7, 2019