Dec 07, 2021
The Unsung Queerness of Green Day Lyrics
Green Day’s album ‘Dookie’ is a quintessential teen-angst record. It’s also very queer—something music critics failed to talk about.
ADHD Made Me Bad at Friendship
Undiagnosed ADHD didn’t make me seek out bad friends, but it did distort the ways I saw myself and how I thought friendships should feel.
Dec 01, 2021
‘Ammonite’ Isn’t a Lesbian Romance, But It Is About Intimacy
This movie is not a romance. I’ve watched it over and over again, wanting it to be, but I don’t think it is one—at least in a conventional sense.
Dec 01, 2021
Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy
While someone’s disability may not be evident to you, it still affects their life—and how they’re treated within and outside the disability community.
Nov 30, 2021
Waiting for Godot as an Impatient Schoolgirl
This was a time in my life when I believed fervently in a loving God, when I wanted to be obedient, and obedience meant waiting.
Nov 22, 2021
Why Don’t American Schools Value Creativity?
High school almost crushed my dream of being a writer. Now, as an educator, I’m trying to be the teacher I never had.
Nov 22, 2021
To Every Woman Who Spent Her Twenties Apologizing
I squeezed myself in around other people’s priorities and problems, all the while saying: Take up all the room you want. I will make myself fit.
Nov 18, 2021
Home Is Where the Strip Malls Are
Our relationships with these business owners dotted the San Fernando Valley from strip mall to strip mall.
Nov 17, 2021
I Donated My Stuttering Brain to Science
As much as I hated being told that my stutter was “all in my head,” I liked being reminded that it was localized in my brain.
Nov 17, 2021
Making the Language of Wine More Inclusive
Often, the vocabulary of wine is only accessible to people who have the time and money to learn it.
Nov 16, 2021
‘Inception’ Gave Me a Way to Dream
Again and again, I’ve lost myself to movie time. I’ve lost myself to dream time, too.
Nov 15, 2021
My Mom, Princess Diana, and Me
At what point does someone we’ve lost become only a story we tell, more myth than memory?
Nov 08, 2021
Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Unraveling the Myth of the Black Supermom
Nora and Iris West-Allen's fraught relationship proves that even we daughters often expect superheroics from our very human Black mothers.
Nov 04, 2021
The Script Characters with Cancer Are Told to Follow
Nora Feely on unrealistic storylines and tropes of characters with cancer, what it means to "survive," gratitude and toxic positivity, and more.
Oct 25, 2021
I Didn’t Want to Miss Baby Night
Children appear in horror all the time because to parent one is naturally terrifying.
Oct 25, 2021
What a Seashell Souvenir Tells Me About Loss
Selfishly, as a writer, I’m also worried about the seasons to come.
Oct 21, 2021
In Taiwan, Running Led Me to My Community—and to Myself
A place doesn’t begin to feel like a home until it contains people you care for.
Oct 20, 2021
Between Parent and Child: A Recipe for Kodomo-Don
I call it 子供丼 (kodomo-don), because it is only egg over rice. Something about it is simple, one rank lower in maturity than an adult dish.
Oct 19, 2021
Getting Diagnosed with ADHD Changed Everything and Nothing
The doctor said she knew in the first five minutes. In eighteen years of schooling and thirty-nine years on the planet, no one else had ever noticed.
Oct 07, 2021
Did I Want Tony Stark Or Want to Be Him?
‘Iron Man’ is far from the origin story of my sexuality, but it’s an inescapable part of the multiverse that is my queerness.
Oct 04, 2021
