“Flying anxieties are mostly useless, but I could have used a healthy dose of caution before confidently stepping off those rocks and then stepping into nothing at all.”Tagged: Anxieties, Safety, Well-Being, Growth, Growing Up
“When figuring out how to clothe my flesh chamber every day, I’d rather focus less on the way fashion decision-makers would think I look and more on the way I feel.”Tagged: clothing, Fashion
“We deserve to have our stories told in the mainstream — the good, the bad, and the ugly — but it is worth thinking about whose comfort is being prioritized when it comes to the way those stories are packaged and sold.”Tagged: Stories, Minorities, Lesbian, LGBT, Hannah Gadsby
“Ellen has provided many celebrities with the opportunity to do some damage control in an environment that isn’t mediated by the press.”Tagged: Ellen Degeneres, Kevin hart, LGBT, Homophobia
“The lesbian doppelgänger, when not outright offensive, is often just a really boring creative choice.”Tagged: Pop Culture, Lesbians, Lesbian Doppelgänger, LGBT, Bisexuality
“The only real takeaway seems to be that people are bad, and we’re all gonna die. But you might as well get in a few good one-liners before you do.”
“I was used to being the person in a relationship who, comparatively, had more of her shit together. I took care of things for the both of us. What would it be like if, for a change, I let somebody else take care of me?”Tagged: My Favorites, sexuality, Love, Blowing Up Your Life, Changes
“Someone’s pride is inevitably someone else’s shame, however, and everything I love about the US women’s team is everything plenty of others despise about it — in our country and around the world.”Tagged: LGBT, USWNT, soccer, Sports, Lesbians
“I wouldn’t say there’s much about US culture that’s particularly fun right now, but a Collina Strada dress in a sheer lime-green organza, with an empire waist and colorful sequined squiggly lines all over it? That’s fun. Sign me up.”Tagged: Fashion, Women's Clothing
“What am I really doing this for? And does any of it matter?”Tagged: Personal Essays, Writing, How to be a writer, Internet Writing
“To me the most offensive thing about Emily in Paris is its inability to get me to care at all about any of these characters.”Tagged: Emily In Paris, TV, Netflix