How Wrestling Saved My Life and Let Me Express My Queerness
Wrestling never stops, so I couldn’t stop, and thus I am still here.
Harmony Cox is a queer Midwestern essayist, humorist, and storyteller. Her work has appeared in publications such as Catapult, Electric Literature, and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America, available from Belt Publishing. Find more of her work at harmonycox.com.
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