QUEER LIFE

A pencil style drawing of a bunch of small black non-detailed figures trapped in an interior space made of 2D walls. Some of the figures are in motion, bouncing chaotically off one another, and others are struggling to leave the enclosure or sitting alone. The tone is sad and trapped.

A Return To The Scene of the Crime: Sex, Intimacy, and Healing From Childhood Trauma

It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s and living with my first partner that I began to realize just how much the physical abuse I faced as a…

Animorphs, revisited

Do you remember them? Did you read them, or do you just remember the covers? Girls turned into starfish, boys into tigers, and it was beyond wacky. I remember staring…

Three Wheel of Fortune tarot cards next to each other on a medium wood surface. The wheel in the first is red with clouds around it, the wheel on the second has dragons on a moving wheel, and the third has orange with a sky in the background.

Belief: The Shimmer is Real

She sits in a silent room, reading cards. Mattresses, cushions, and pieces of cloth-covered foam are evenly spread throughout the space like beds for 50 ghosts. The only things moving…

It’s About More Than Shoes: Confessions of a wannabe dapper straight woman OR Why we need gender neutral fashion for EVERYONE

There I sat, staring into my luggage—the fancy dress, the perfume, the strappy heels– and wondering why nothing in my relationship was adding up. I was just back from my…

SUCH A FLOOD

* 4 CARD SPREAD Okay, so you’ve only got €4 left in your bank account and it’s annoying that they won’t let you take that out. But are you even…

SUN IN THE OFFICE

My hands have become a bit autonomous, and it’s a huge relief. I love that they now pick up dishes on their own, turn the dial of the washing machine…

A pen and pastel drawing on white paper of caricatured and loosely drawn faces. The faces are defined in black pen, while blue, orange, pink, red, yellow and green pastel is smeared between and around the outlines. The texture of the paper is visible.

BITTER VICTORIES

The second time I went out socially after moving to London, a stranger forced me under pressure to out myself to the group we were sitting with, while discussing how…

‘does this haircut make me look like i can handle reality’

‘the origin of anxiety,’ oil on canvas, 2014 sexy tumblr my friend found a sexy photo while searching for [something] on my laptop, once he put it in…

A black and white image of a rumpled bed with white sheets and a floral duvet thrown to the side. The white pillow has another darker pillow peeking out from underneath, and a bright window is behind the bed. The wrinkle pattern in the fabric is most heavily emphasized. A paper with text printed on it is on the far corner of the bed.

RELEARNING LOVE

During Coven’s Feminist Conqueerors exhibition, I co-hosted a discussion about queer femme experiences, and I’m not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that it changed my life. This has…

QUEER MASTERMINDS: FRUITS OF INSIGHT ON STEVE & SAM

I set out to interview Steve and Sam, the sexiest and cleverest drag-kings I have ever seen. Unfortunately, they are also the only drag-kings I have ever seen. Why so…