By Trying on the Role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer Confronts His Gay Shame
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‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
Nina MacLaughlin discusses her retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. “[In] my very vague high school memories…there was no discussion of the fact that this book is just rape after rape after rape.”
Heartbreaker
Beatrix M. Rooney discovers a tragic secret that may explain her brother’s descent into cruelty and violence.
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Becoming Family
Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.
How to Survive a Vivisection
After a traumatic experience with childbirth, Rachel Somerstein struggles to bond with her newborn daughter.
What Shattered My Mother’s Mind
Winston Ross recalls the heartbreaking ordeal his family endured after his mother’s routine surgery led to post-operative delirium.
Happiness is Fleeting
Good grief, adolescence is difficult. Luckily Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell found solidarity and guidance from The Peanuts Gang.
A New Low: Stealing From the Dead
“Thieves and forgers are taking houses from the deceased in ‘hot’ (Philadelphia) neighborhoods — as the city stands by.”
Walking Across California
To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.
