Wellness

Love as a young Black lesbian has not been patient. Nor kind.

Drink responsibly, babes.

“This is an amazing human and artistic experience.”

“It’s almost taking us back to a time when people really cared about each other.”

“I’m casting people who are different from me to make changes that affect all of us.”   

“There is so much out there that says we do not belong. I think having homeownership creates an atmosphere of safety and autonomy over one’s self.”

It was clear that I needed this community if I was going to learn how to skate.

The castle I call home has crumbled.

You might stop and smell the roses, but have you considered stopping at queer historical sites?

Something just *clicked.*

So what does this empty space mean? Does it mean you’ve fallen through the cracks?

This is the time to redesign our lives. There is no right way to practice self-care.

I knew I wanted something big for my life. Something WNBA big.

Lesbian bed death can truly come back from the dead.

Not only did I have a marijuana-seeking dog, he chose to eat roaches. Did he not deem himself worthy of the plump buds next to the sad, sorry, limp joint remnants? Did he need counseling?

Andrea Gibson will pull you back into focus when you feel yourself fading away.

Here’s to the creatives, our greatest professors who manage to stay creative in a culture that is forever undermining their worth in the world when they’re ones who bring us the world.

“I have mastered the art of supplanting sadness with stories”

CURL, if your lashes identify as heterosexual.

I liked the way the word lesbian rolled off my tongue and “angry” described exactly how I felt.

Being closeted is like living in an alternate world within this world.

I don’t really have a thesis here.

How I learned to get a GRIP.

Sorry lesbians: mercury is in retrograde.

I want to be both things.

Seeing yourself in someone else can serve as a living affirmation.

The suburban confessions of a native New Yorker.

Here is a secret I learned from many many summers without a pool because I wasn’t a cool rich kid: Slip N Slide.

In the words of Audre Lorde, “Without community, there is no liberation.”

What is it about white wine that makes us EXTRA un-hinged the following day?

FROM THE ARCHIVES: I plan my funeral often.

Can we date with oblivion to the moon, and stars, or should we consider our charts when we fall in love? 

None of this is okay. None of this is normal.

The fiction books you didn’t know you needed.

If you are young, non-binary, and black, you are the ultimate revolutionary.

You are your own ride or die.