First Person
Recent First Person posts
I Rediscovered Fanfiction This Year and It Reconnected Me to My Inner Teen
Confessions of a Ghost
Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Empty Magic: Dinner
Revisiting the Scary Movie Sleepover
How Bottoming Helped Me Heal From Sexual Trauma
To All the Hot People I Met on My Cross-Country Drive
In Queer Horror Anthology “It Came From the Closet,” Carmen Maria Machado Considers Jennifer’s Body
7 Pressing Questions I Have for Myself After Moving
Empty Magic: Lunch
I Met My Online Friends for the First Time and Remained Fully in My Head
Empty Magic: Breakfast
As a Nonbinary Abortion Activist, Planning a Pregnancy Is Complicated — And Hopeful
Letters to My Dead, Gay [REDACTED]
I Compartmentalized My Life — Now I’m Opening the Boxes
Is There Life After High School?
I’m Asexual and I Prefer to Have Sex With Myself
“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
