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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story

The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene

by Kristin Sanders October 21, 2020November 4, 2022

A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

What’s Happening to My Body?

by Devorah Heitner September 12, 2019January 27, 2023

Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Swipe White

by Sari Botton December 31, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Story

The Queer Generation Gap

by Soraya Roberts November 23, 2018October 19, 2022

How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Vanishing Twins

by Leah Dieterich September 4, 2018February 22, 2023

After years of bonding closely with other people, one woman finally goes searching for herself.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Semi-Fluid States: The Rigid Line of Straightness

by Sari Botton August 24, 2018October 19, 2022

In the fourth installment of her series on #Dating_While_Woke, Minda Honey interrogates her sexuality and questions the future of straight-by-default.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Be Single

by Sari Botton July 2, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

How to Be Single

by Shelly Oria July 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

How to Be Single

by Shelly Oria July 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

Advocating for the Bisexual Community: A Reading List

by Emily Perper September 27, 2015October 19, 2022

On September 21, Eliel Cruz tweeted, “If you’re an LGBT journalist and you don’t produce even one piece of content for #BiWeek you’re not an LGBT journalist.” Cruz’s words hit me in the chest.

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