A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others...
I wrote “The Crevasse: A Love Letter” to help me grapple with confusing changes to the terrain of my life.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
Overall, "Little Red" encompasses queerness, womanhood, and the implications of growing into an identity that isn't cherished by society.
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.
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
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.
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
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.
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
