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Recent First Person posts

How Embracing Skincare Helped Me Get My Head Back Inside My Chronically Ill Body

The Bittersweet Magic of Falling in Love with My Best Friend During the Pandemic

Four Months

What a Long Strange Year It’s Been: A One-Year Quarantine Reflection Roundtable

This Is an Essay About Penises

Everything That Matters Is Stuck in the Back of My Throat

Queering Faith: Reclaiming the Holy of Sexuality

Wrestling With Kamala and Beyond: Reckoning With Blackness, Womanhood, and What Comes Next

Gender Fluidity and the Black Atlantic

Making Amends with Valentine’s Day

Finding My Place as a Transmasculine Slut

Wild, Fat, Queer and Black: How I Became Free In The Mountains And Never Left

The Angsty Buddhist: Chronic Pain & Trying Not To Be A White Yoga Lady

I Stopped Tweezing in Quarantine and Realized I’m Nonbinary

Seeing the Wind: How It Feels To Be A COVID Nurse

The Angsty Buddhist: Learning Anger And White Buddhism

Giving Poppers to Cis Women

Kamala’s First Novel Zigzags Is Out Today!

The Time I Wanted to Hug a TERF

How Reading A Queer Latina Writer Helped Me Understand My Mother’s Story