QUEER LIFE

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…

KINGING AND QUEENING AND THE SENSATIONS OF GENDER

Last July, I was invited to take part in a drag workshop that focused on the sensations of gender and the pleasure of drag, facilitated by Zinzi Buchanan (Steve) and…

GERMIONE, OR HOW FAN FICTION SAVED MY QUEER LIFE

The fact that I realized I was queer at the tender age of twelve while reading Lord of the Rings FanFiction has become a running joke among my queer friends….

ON TELLING MY MOTHER ABOUT MY GIRLFRIEND

On a cold, brightly lit train from New York to Boston, I went over and over the words I would say to mother to explain my new relationship with a…

Yesterday the 64th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) fired the starting pistol. During 10 days filmophiles will have the opportunity to enjoy various feature films, documentaries, shorts and retro classics…