A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step
“I woke up feeling like someone had run me over with a truck and I thought, “I guess this is motherhood.” And probably would’ve died thinking that.”
4 Unexpected Things That Can Happen to Transfeminine Bodies on Estrogen
1. I’m so much cooler these days. Literally and figuratively.
Can Immigrant Mothers Heal With Their Queer Kids? These Desi Aunties Are Trying
Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate American society as fluently as their children.
My Childhood Was Abusive. The Effects of CPTSD Kept Me From Realizing It
It took me over two decades to readily consider myself a victim of abuse.
What If I’m Totally Fine with the Space Between Us?
Your mom wants to braid friendship bracelets and you want to disappear into adulthood. Also, we help a reader embrace queer romance novels!
‘I Want To Eat More Protein Without Triggering My ED’
Practical tips for someone who wants to fuel their workouts with more protein but doesn’t want to track.
I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt
At first you don’t really know which of the baby’s behaviors are going to be a Thing and which are just the music playing in the lobby before you sit down for the show. But it seems like most people’s babies have a Thing.
Our Birth Story Has Severe Features
Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a really really cute little baby boy.
We’re Right Here: Finding Connection in My Community of Sex Workers
Whenever I think of the sex workers I befriended, the thing that always struck me is how different we all are.
What I Wish I Knew About Getting a Hysterectomy as a Trans Man
Surgery is allowed to suck, even when it’s a surgery that you really wanted.
How Can Trans Women Deal With Erectile Dysfunction?
Erectile dysfunction is consistently counted among the most common sexual disorders. It’s also a topic close to my heart (and other organs) because I experience it.
‘My Partner Is Hurt I’ve Changed My Mind About Having a Baby’
This is one of those incredibly difficult situations where you and your partner are both entitled to your feelings even though those feelings are at direct odds with each other.
10 Years Ago, I Had the Most Chaotic Valentine’s Day Plans Possible
Chicago, Winter 2015. I’m doing a cringe-worthy, cliche version of Living In Chicago In Your Early Twenties.
Lesbian Movies for Every Valentine’s Day Vibe
Whether you’re single, recently dumped, in love, or somewhere in between, we’ve got Valentine’s Day lesbian movie recs for you!
Baby Steps #6: The Best Laid Birth Plans
Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it — and if there’s anything I can say about our little Prenatal Birth & Labor class, it is “there was a lot I did not know.”
Baby Steps #5: Fixing the Window
“If I’d made it this far into the pregnancy without being forced to face the reality that has inspired many of my generation to forego reproduction altogether, I could do so no longer.”
We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
New Years Resolutions but It’s Just Cool Things Shane Did in ‘The L Word’
In 2025, I will have an affair with an older married woman.
A Queer Guide to Starting Strength Training
The right time to start something new is anytime.
Why I Rewatch ‘The Family Stone’ Every Year
The Family Stone is many queer folks’ first introduction to warm, unconditional familial love.