Jun 23, 2021
The Radical Possibilities of Virtual Theater
When stage shows went virtual, traditional directors declared that the form was “dead.” They are extremely wrong.
Coming Out, as Told by Florida Wildlife
Can you still hear us? We’re drowning the state in our chirps tonight if you’d care to sing along.
Jun 22, 2021
Our Hair: How I Found Community and Coconut Oil in France
Across the thousands of miles, and the hundreds of years of historical and cultural distance, Albertine and I had our hair in common.
Jun 21, 2021
How Writing My Young Adult Novel Helped Me Reclaim the Queer Girlhood I Lost
The years I suppressed my queerness are a loss that I'm exploring and grieving—if only through fiction.
Jun 17, 2021
The Transportive Power of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
On the back of that wind, my brain rose and skipped and tumbled far beyond the boundaries of any quarantine.
Jun 16, 2021
Halloween 1998, Old Man with Old Wife
Obviously, I cannot be the old woman. Obviously, I cannot be the woman.
Jun 15, 2021
In the Pandemic, Cooking Connected Me to My Ancestors
I could almost sense them beside me, as if the spattered index cards they’d left behind had come to life.
Jun 14, 2021
Choosing Survival Over Love in ‘Hadestown’
Eurydice’s decision to choose comfort could be read as a betrayal. But it is a survival response, an instinct to protect the self.
May 17, 2021
The Minari of My Memory
That plant in a park in Rhode Island delivered the promise that there might be something familiar in this place where everything was new.
May 06, 2021
Learning to Hate Yourself in Los Angeles
They told me, “Gay people are all in WeHo. There are no gay people in Inglewood.” To be gay was not only to be Other, but to be white.
May 05, 2021
How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy
These stories had deep histories, centered Black women, and belonged to us. We only had to be brave enough to claim them.
Apr 19, 2021
How Clea DuVall Helped Me Find Queer Joy
But I’m a Cheerleader gave me something to hold onto: for the first time, I had seen queer love and community.
Apr 14, 2021
The Queer Diary of an Extreme Heterozygote
Extreme heterozygotes are everywhere in this world. Everyone could be one.
Apr 01, 2021
Detangling the Myth of Colorblindness in ‘Cinderella’
What is lost in a story that chooses to make Brandy a princess and Whitney Houston a fairy godmother despite their Blackness, not because of it?
Mar 31, 2021
What Mr. Miyagi Taught Me About Anti-Asian Racism in America
We Asians were in this thing—racist America—together.
Mar 23, 2021
Visible Invisibility: The Ghostly Nature of Queer-Reading
I cannot explain queerness any longer in ways that don’t involve ghosts.
Mar 15, 2021
Before There Was a Q
Look like “a boy,” they call you “a boy.” Everyone believed my mother got her answer to her prayer, and for a while it seemed to be so.
Mar 08, 2021
Finding Strength in Softness Through Hayley Williams
Hayley’s rage-filled vocals used to provide an emotional outlet that gave voice to loss, anger, and confusion I couldn’t put words to yet.
Mar 04, 2021
Nick Miller Is the Quarantine Role Model I Didn’t Know I Needed
Seeing Nick’s imperfections play out in a way that shows he is not a failure, just human, is exactly what I needed to get me through quarantine.
Feb 25, 2021
