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My Favorite F***ing Movie: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

I have Covid right now—get vaccinated kiddos, it’s still a thing!—so I wasn’t able to finish the essay I had planned on posting this month. Instead, enjoy this essay that…

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April 1, 2025
essays, film

My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive

My mom died last October and ever since—and despite being a pretty skeptical agnostic most of my life—I haven’t been able to help imagining some sort of afterlife. The possibility…

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February 28, 2025
essays, film

New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie

I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go…

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January 30, 2025
essays

Against the Discourse

The world, and the internet, is in flux. While Twitter was once a subversive stronghold for opinions that are not often enough given the credence or the attention they deserve…

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June 20, 2024
essays

Men, Call Out Your Friends

It’s time for men to take some responsibility for men.   Every time I post something online asking men to call out other men on shitty behavior, I invariably get…

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May 13, 2024
  • Still from Jennifer's Body.
    essays,  film

    My Favorite F***ing Movie: For the Girls Who Go Both Ways (Jennifer’s Body)

    / June 2, 2025

    So I guess this is a released-at-the-beginning-of-the-month essay series now. It may have slipped your mind that June is Pride Month (it seems to have slipped passed every major corporation this year, for…

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  • essays,  film

    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Yes, God, Yes

    / May 6, 2025

    Apologies for this month’s essay being a smidge late; my husband recently started a night job at Universal and I barely know what day it is lately. My birthday was in April and…

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  • essays,  film

    My Favorite F***ing Movie: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

    / April 1, 2025

    I have Covid right now—get vaccinated kiddos, it’s still a thing!—so I wasn’t able to finish the essay I had planned on posting this month. Instead, enjoy this essay that originally appeared in…

    read more
  • Still from the film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).
    essays,  film

    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive

    / February 28, 2025

    My mom died last October and ever since—and despite being a pretty skeptical agnostic most of my life—I haven’t been able to help imagining some sort of afterlife. The possibility of it. Coupled…

    read more
  • Logo for My Favorite F***ing Movie.
    essays,  film

    New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie

    / January 30, 2025

    I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go (1999) is the…

    read more
  • The author's feet on a concrete pavement in front of a fence with daisies.
    Personal

    Life Update: The Bitch is Back

    / December 10, 2024

    …the bitch being my cyst. Or me, I guess, if you count whiny little bitches. If you’ve been following the saga of my Bartholin cyst, whelp—it came back a few months ago. I…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
    health

    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #3

    / July 30, 2024

    Well, folks, it finally happened. Almost exactly five months after my traumatic, painful, entirely shitty experience getting an infected Bartholin gland cyst lanced and drained in the emergency room… I finally had sex…

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  • Pointe of Pride by Chloe Angyal front and back covers.
    Books,  reviews

    Book Review: Pointe of Pride by Chloe Angyal

    / July 23, 2024

    I’m a firm believer in romance novels as tools for self-exploration. I think these books are an invaluable way to discover things about your body and sexuality in a manner that is virtually…

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  • Still from I Saw the TV Glow: sidewalk chalk reading "There is still time."
    film

    Pride 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part II)

    / June 29, 2024

    There were not enough queer movies in the second half of June for my taste (are there ever, though?), but the ones I did see really blew me away. If you missed my…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
    health

    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #2

    / June 28, 2024

    I wanted to give a quick update, even though not a ton has technically changed. It’s been about four months (dang!) since my cyst became infected and I had to have it drained,…

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