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Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained For

by Sari Botton March 26, 2020October 19, 2022

In this braided essay, Jazmine Hughes contemplates her resistance to both learning to swim and coming out, and the empowerment each experience offers her when she finally surrenders to them.

Posted inBooks, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

In Jo’s Image

by Jeanna Kadlec December 19, 2019December 30, 2022

Jeanna Kadlec considers the impact of Little Women’s matriarchy — and its heroine — on the formation of her own queer identity.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, History, Nonfiction, Story

Where are the Gay Ladies of Cambodia?

by Lindsey Danis December 9, 2019December 30, 2022

Honeymooning in Cambodia, Lindsey Danis and her wife seek refuge in queer spaces, but struggle to find the acceptance granted to male travelers.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Is Happening to My Body?

by Sari Botton September 12, 2019October 19, 2022

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 inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

What’s Happening to My Body?

by Devorah Heitner September 12, 2019October 19, 2022

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

Anaphylaxis of the Mind

by Sari Botton September 3, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.

Posted inEditor's Pick

When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away

by Sari Botton August 27, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away

by Amber Leventry August 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

When Running Toward Yourself Looks Like Running Away

by Amber Leventry August 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Amber Leventry recalls how getting sober forced them to confront and reveal important truths about their identity.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Woodstock: My Queer Love Story

by Sari Botton August 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Kate Walter recalls attending Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend — a few years before they split up and both came out.

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