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essays, Personal

Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You

The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne…

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September 26, 2023
essays, health

The Origin of Pain

Or, The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me – Yet! Or, How the U.S. Health System Fucks You Up, Then Leaves You High and Dry Or, The Insidious Ways…

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April 15, 2024
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, film

My Favorite F***ing Movie: Sex Won’t Kill You, But Something Else Surely Will (Ti West’s X)

I was planning on releasing this month’s essay at the beginning of the month, as I normally do, but then I got it in my head that I wanted my…

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October 13, 2025
essays, Personal

A Feminine Manifesto

It’s been four whole years since I published my first (and thus far, only) book. Four years that feel like a lifetime and a blink simultaneously. Four years that I…

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July 2, 2022
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    essays

    Against the Discourse

    / June 20, 2024

    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 – minority opinions,…

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  • Still from Femme.
    film

    Pride Month 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part I)

    / June 11, 2024

    All the queer movies I’ve enjoyed in June (or, you know, close to June) thus far. New(ish) movies: Femme My favorite movie of 2024 so far, hands down. Utterly tense, shockingly sexy, and…

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  • Photo of Imogen, Obviously book cover.
    Books,  reviews

    Exploring Identity in the Internet Age: Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

    / May 14, 2024

    Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli is a sweet, very timely young adult romance about Imogen, a high school girl who thinks she’s just a “very, very dedicated ally” – despite her enduring love…

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  • Orange graphic of a megaphone with the words, "Men, Call Out Your Friends."
    essays

    Men, Call Out Your Friends

    / May 13, 2024

    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 multiple responses from…

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  • Books,  reviews

    Rock Star Romances & The Words by A. Jade

    / May 6, 2024

    Rock star romances tend to feature one of my favorite (male) love interest types: angsty bad boys with anger problems, tragic backstories, big hearts and bigger dicks. Maybe it’s cliche and a little…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
    health

    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #1

    / May 1, 2024

    If you read my last post, you know that about ten weeks ago my Bartholin cyst got infected and I had to have it lanced and drained at an urgent care center. It…

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  • essays,  health

    The Origin of Pain

    / April 15, 2024

    Or, The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me – Yet! Or, How the U.S. Health System Fucks You Up, Then Leaves You High and Dry Or, The Insidious Ways Doctors Weaponize Women’s…

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  • Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent.
    essays,  Guest Post

    Guest Post: Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent

    / February 13, 2024

    I’m thrilled to present a guest post from my friend Stephanie Parent – a fantastic writer, poet, and author of the novel THE BRIARS (which I cannot recommend enough). Today, she’s discussing the…

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  • film

    Favorite (Mostly Queer) Films of 2023

    / December 28, 2023

    While the horror pickings were, in my opinion, a bit slim this year, 2023 was a banner year for being queer in film. A year so good that Barbie and Bottoms didn’t even…

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  • health

    Pelvic Floor PT 101: What Is Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Like?

    / November 16, 2023

    I’ve mentioned in the past (here and here) that several years ago I was diagnosed with vulvodynia and vaginismus – two disorders that often go hand-in-hand. Vulvodynia makes the vagina extremely sensitive to…

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