My bisexuality was a resistance and a freedom and a liability. It was such a defining part of my life that I still cling to the word, to its shifting meaning, to all it can be and all the defiance it stands for.
“Carson Shaw, indeed!”
“Remember your bi phase?” my best friend asked when we were in our 20s. I rolled my eyes.
“Yeah. It was never a phase.”
A special shout-out to the friend who said “you know you can just be bisexual, right?” when I was spiraling about whether I’d have to give up being gay altogether and if the last five years of my life had been a lie.
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I left The Woman King feeling like I could fight any obstacle that was in my way. Not only was I full of adrenaline, but I was filled with joy. Seeing a group of powerful Black women triumph fills me like nothing else can.
“Hold The Girl” now stands with “Sawayama” in cementing Rina Sawayama’s status as one of the best pop stars of our generation.
“There’re contingencies of queer freaks everywhere, sometimes it just takes a little more effort.”
Today the sun moves into the cardinal air of Libra, officially ushering us into autumn.
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“It became what I thought was just a one-sided crush — a nice thing to daydream about while I was filling out the most horrendous, huge spreadsheets I had ever seen.”
“If the flannel fits…”
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“Her moaning kind of disappeared into the expanse of the ocean and the sand, and I remember thinking it was the coolest thing that ever happened to me.”
As the weather becomes colder, there’s nothing I like to do more than pour myself tea and snuggle up to my computer monitor to watch strangers play video games online.
I never wanted to live with a cat. Of course, the universe had other plans.
I think that this probably happens to people a lot more than you’d think.