Feelings, Rendered Material

A sweetly nostalgic essay about queer teenage feelings: if you can’t say them out loud, say them with a super-personal, emotion-laden gift.

Source: Autostraddle
Published: Feb 11, 2019
Length: 7 minutes (1,995 words)

How to Thrive as a Sober Queer Through the Holigays

In a piece that’s part personal essay and part service journalism, Molly Priddy shares how challenging it initially was going home for the holidays just after she got sober — and how it’s gotten better over the years. She also offers tips suggesting how others avoiding alcohol might get through the end-of-year forced family fun with their sanity — and sobriety — intact.

Source: Autostraddle
Published: Dec 7, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,527 words)

Before You Know It Something’s Over

On grieving over the loss of a parent at a young age: “My father died on November 14th, 1995, when I was 14. Every day since the day he died I am one day farther away from him than I was before. This is the truest thing about me.”

Source: Autostraddle
Published: Jun 15, 2014
Length: 29 minutes (7,414 words)