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Pride isn’t always a festive occasion for everyone, as we commemorate what the LGBTQIA community has endured and survived in past years. Tiffany Babb writes about the complex emotions that arise when we don’t feel celebratory during this month of rainbows and sparkles.
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In snapshots rich with details, Jenna Swisher chronicles the daily microaggressions and misunderstanding of bisexuality, inhabiting the liminal space of sexuality that most don’t think exists. The Art of Being a Unicorn leaves you with more questions than answers, and hungry for what could have been, in the best way possible.
Read MoreI go to the mirror, running my thumb along the sandpaper skin of my cheek, where the garden of little copper wires blossoms and blooms. I wish for a razor.
Read MoreEvery time I put it on, it is cold. A small piece of metal, a double-sided axe. A skinny black rubber necklace suspends it around my neck; it nestles between my breasts. Originally from Crete in Greece, the labrys is an adopted icon of lesbians.
Read MoreThe middle ground is a scary place.
Read MoreIt was easy, when I was able-bodied, to believe that I would do anything necessary to keep myself alive and healthy. The privilege of the well is to believe they know what it’s like to be sick.
Read MoreMarina and I had been together already for a couple of years, but in those days her mom could still barely make eye contact with me, much less remember my name. My menu politely responded: See, this is what a hillbilly dyke can do, you fucking homophobe.
Read MoreIt’s three in the morning and Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States. We are both poor sleepers, always and forever but tonight especially, and I am reasonably certain she’s awake when I press my lips to her spine and tell her I love her for the first time.
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