"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
"We began this autoethnographic essay thinking about the love the teachers have for their students."
In this piece, a queer university student from China reflects on his understandings of sexual and ethnic/national identities as he moves from China to the UK to study.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
""Mourning (Unfinished)" is an essay about the way my experiences with farm animals helped me come to terms with a miscarriage."
This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
I’ll take you back through my journey and then reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self.
