First Person

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Recent First Person posts

What To Expect When Your Friends Are Expecting (as a Childfree Queer)

Leaning Into Pleasure at the Janelle Monáe Listening Party

Overheating: Leaving My Home State of Florida

Porkchop’s Odyssey: On Fatness, Transness, and Pants

Making An Independent Documentary About Queer Women Is Like Jumping Without A Net

Top Surgery, Magnolia Trees, and the Trans Art of Letting Go

10 Things I Spend My Money on Now That Isn’t Drugs or Alcohol

I Still Pray After I Masturbate

Old Gal, New Tricks: Queer Menopause and Masturbation

The Need for Trans Girl Trash

In “A Recipe for More,” Sara Elise Asks: Who Do You Want To Become?

It’s Time To Face Facts: I’ll Never Be a Lipstick Femme

A Lesbian Reflects on Lesbian Visibility (Sort Of)

Calling Myself a Lesbian Has Been a Lesson in Self Acceptance

Ranking The National Songs by How Much I’ve Cried to Them

At the Passover Table, New Traditions Will Be Born

The Yeses that Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans

Let Me Be in My Queer Italianx Feelings for a Minute

Send Me to Low Femme Paradise

Thank You, Ex: For (1) Set of Ghost Hands