This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
"From dancing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to the Cow Palace in San Francisco, every venue taught me valuable lessons."
I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
"This is an autoetnography of a black fatherhood journey which encapsulates my hopes, my fears, my love of baby and mother, while trying my best to make sense of a Black fatherhood I wanted so very dearly."
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
Jill Boyles·
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"She needs to be an artist to be an artist-teacher in adult community learning. She needs to do both to become the best she can be."