I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
This piece works to contextualize aging in the queer community, the complexities of developing trends in spectacle versus intimacy, the depth and shallow natures that are found in performance, as well as the fear and hope that can be found as a queer person.
As I discuss my first queer event, a book discussion about a queer young adult book, Canto Contigo, I will explore my anxieties about my sexual identity, and the repercussions of this community warfare.
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.
I wrote “The Crevasse: A Love Letter” to help me grapple with confusing changes to the terrain of my life.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others...
The focus of this piece is to highlight and celebrate the asexual and aromantic community and what it means to exist outside of the expectation to be partnered.
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
Overall, "Little Red" encompasses queerness, womanhood, and the implications of growing into an identity that isn't cherished by society.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
