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.
But I’m a Cheerleader gave me something to hold onto: for the first time, I had seen queer love and community.
Extreme heterozygotes are everywhere in this world. Everyone could be one.
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?
We Asians were in this thing—racist America—together.
I cannot explain queerness any longer in ways that don’t involve ghosts.
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.
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.
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.
“Plastic Hearts” was the album I needed to hear, articulating what no one else would tell me: My plastic was no longer serving me.
Hannah Walhout on body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.
I dug my hole trying to keep up with a social calendar I couldn’t afford, which is often what happens when you feel like you don’t belong on the social calendar to begin with.
If one loved in the Indian provinces, one could only love in English, with “I love you.”
Can Black writing be seen as more than a product of our death and pain?
It’s hard to say what about it is more charming to me, the hilarity of it or the inescapable Jewishness of it. Mel Brooks could be any man in my family.
Both the sandwich and I were ‘made in China’ but with an undeniable Americanness.
Christina Bartson on improvisation, shutting out fear, and trusting her movement during the pandemic.
Her anger had made its way to her music; my anger couldn’t find a home outside my own head.
Leaving my cishet marriage was hard, but it set us both free to find more satisfying relationships.