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My Gender is Dyke: Discovering Femme Lesbian Gender
In this essay, Staff Writer Leah (Bunny) Overstreet reflects on discovering and embracing Femme lesbian identity, and how doing so helped her understand her gender expression, desires, and sense of self. Read more now!
Dance, Damnit!: On Queer Joy, the Dance Floor, and Giving a Fuck as a Radical Act
In this essay, guest writer JJ Baysinger speaks on the rise of nonchalance as a cultural posture, and how hyper-documented life has made enthusiasm for anything feel risky. The "death of the dance floor" isn't about music or attendance, but rather learned reluctance out of fear of being clipped, mocked, or ratioed. Read more now!
ANTM and the Systematic Dehumanization of Women
In this personal essay, Guest Writer Angelica Santini provides her unique take on the new America's Next Top Model documentary and how it’s interconnected dehumanization of women. Read more now!
lesbian loneliness in fandom, cultura y identidad
From a genderfluid and Latine perspective, Guest Writer Ivana Florian speaks on lesbian loneliness in fandom communities and all of its nuance.
The Person I Never Became
In this personal essay, guest writer Tara Bozickovic explores the devastating gap between who she imagined she’d become at eighteen and who she actually was, and how that disappointment became the thing that finally allowed her to grow up. Read more now!
How to Shatter the Looking Glass: An Autobiographical Essay
In this essay, guest writer Kyra Williams-Davis speaks on her experiences as a Black woman who attended a PWI, the struggle to stay true to who she knew was, and how she overcame this struggle through the friendships she made and developed with other Black women. Read more now!