Photo Essay: I Chose To Remove My Fallopian Tubes in Post-Roe v. Wade Texas
For photographer Josie Norris, the decision was more than a form of birth control. It was gender-affirming care.
What Queers Need To Know About Eating Disorders
Despite finishing a Master’s in Psychology — in queer healthcare access, no less — I didn’t realize I had a serious eating disorder until afterward.
Queer Mom Chronicles: Let’s Talk Mom Fashion
Admittedly, I’m still trying to figure out how my queerness factors into my mom style.
How To Engage With New Year’s Resolutions More Thoughtfully
I have to take a page from my time recovering from an eating disorder. The habits and encouragement found in supportive eating disorder recovery look a lot like the things we want to emulate in daily life.
Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality
What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head on my chest, REALLY on my chest, closer to my heart than ever?
13 New Years Resolutions You’re Welcome To Steal
I don’t know when we normalized asking people what their worst habits are, but at some point, we did and now we do it every year! I hate it!
New Year’s Resolutions Can Be Fun Actually
If you want to work out more, that’s great. But it’s also great if what you want is to watch every episode of the original Twilight Zone or dedicate more time to long masturbation sessions.
Queer Mom Chronicles: Happy New Year!
Giving up control is hard for me as a mom who was a single parent for so many years.
What Should Your Questionable New Year’s Resolution Be, According to Your Sign?
Let’s all agree to make THIS year call us “Daddy.”
Here’s a Step-By-Step Guide on How to Find a Therapist
We’ve all been in a place where we know we should see a therapist, but the idea of even taking the steps from “yeah I should probably see someone someday” to “I called them yesterday and set up my first appointment” is daunting. I’m going to guide us through it.
You Need Help: How Do I Become Less Afraid of New Year’s and the Expectations it Brings?
This time of year inherently brings stress, so please treat yourself with kindness.
Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy
“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”
Holidays Are for Best Friends, Teletubbies, and Arthur
Every holiday season, I revisit 2000’s Arthur’s Perfect Christmas and its lessons about friendship.
Hallmark’s “Friends and Family Christmas” Is The Cheesy Holiday Romance Sapphics Deserve
“Friends and Family Christmas is everything that those of us who want an easy, cheesy Christmas romcom could ask for. Low stakes, lots of twinkly lights, and two openly queer actresses playing the romantic leads.”
My Favorite Queer Christmas Movie Is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline”
Yes, it’s a Christmas movie actually. Let me explain.
25 Things To Do if You Need a Break From Your Family This Holiday Weekend
8. Go down a social media rabbit hole trying to figure out what your favorite high school English teacher is up to.
I Think I Accidentally Bought My Fiancée a Haunted Music Box for Christmas
Who knew the vintage clown music box that inexplicably plays “Memories” from the musical Cats would be haunted?
Gay People: I Need Us To Care About Palestine
“In a world where it is clear that the nation-state is an outdated model that cannot hold us down, that cannot protect us, I ask: what do we owe each other? What do we owe the land? How do we protect each other, and the land, in this increasingly turbulent time?”
Power Ranking Italian (and Italian-American) Christmas Desserts
My ancestors really said “Ok, let’s make a dessert that looks like cured meat.”
Queer Mom Chronicles: Christmas With a Tween
My mother warned me that it goes by fast, but f*ck. The constant back and forth of being the mom of a tween is breaking my heart.