A new call for submissions that celebrate, problematize, challenge, or illuminate the many meanings of "queer."
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.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others...
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
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.
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.
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.
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
