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A Simple Text, A Complex Reckoning: On Sisters and Queers

Jen Majoor·
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·October 12, 2024·8 min read
It is a reckoning on sisters and queers after themes of family violence, sibling disconnection and queer isolation emerge.
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The Crevasse: A Love Letter

Mary Salome·
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·June 16, 2024·10 min read
I wrote “The Crevasse: A Love Letter” to help me grapple with confusing changes to the terrain of my life.
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In-formation: Aging in the Queer Community

Ann Niland·
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·March 19, 2024·12 min read
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.
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Asexual and Aromantic: Exploring Life Alone but Not Lonely 

Shanita Mitchell·
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·March 12, 2024·2 min read
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.
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Little Red: The Truth About Growing Up Queer And South-Asian

Sam Ahmed·
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·January 12, 2024·3 min read
Overall, "Little Red" encompasses queerness, womanhood, and the implications of growing into an identity that isn't cherished by society.
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The Power of Trans Empathy: Recollecting Unconditional Community Nurturing

Raine Grayson·
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·December 11, 2023·11 min read
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.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Anthologies

Aislin Neufeldt·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·November 28, 2023·9 min read
“Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene” in one of autoethnographic works on my queerness and informed by speculative anthropology.
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·October 20, 2023·10 min read
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
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On Hegemonic Queerness: A Powerful Examination of the Queer Identity

Robert Vetter·
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·September 10, 2023·11 min read
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Milk

Aislin Neufeldt·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 31, 2023·17 min read
What is my responsibility as a trans feminine person when the human-induced strain on the planet is the driver of the climate crisis?
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Power Relations: German Language, New Identities and Sense of Belonging

Hongwei Bao·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·May 14, 2023·9 min read
This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.
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A Collision of Several Cultures: My Old Kentucky Homo

Joshua Adair·
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·May 13, 2023·15 min read
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
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