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One Headlight: An Alaskan Memoir

One Headlight: An Alaskan Memoir

A moving queer coming-of-age memoir set in Alaska

2021

Matt Frye-Castillo

Matt Frye-Castillo

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Prism & Pen

Can ‘Saved!’ — a Christian Satire — Help the Marginalized Resist Dogma?

What a 2004 teen comedy tells us about dealing with haters.

Apr 18, 2024

Can ‘Saved!’ — a Christian Satire — Help the Marginalized Resist Dogma?

Apr 18, 2024

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Rooted

Finding Love at Taco Bell

How a fast-food chain brought me closer to my heritage (sorta)

May 5, 2024

Finding Love at Taco Bell

May 5, 2024

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History and the Art of Queer Recovery

Pauli Murray, Charles Demuth, Carson McCullers — can someone be part of LGBTQIA+ history if they never “came out”?

Oct 14, 2024

History and the Art of Queer Recovery

Oct 14, 2024

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How Queer T-Shirts Became Powerful Tools of Identity and Activism

Threads of Pride: From ‘Maricón’ to ‘Nobody Knows I’m Gay”, queer t-shirts hold a legendary power.

Jan 6

How Queer T-Shirts Became Powerful Tools of Identity and Activism

Jan 6

New essay! — “Finding Héctor”

Little Patuxent Review — Issue 37: Winter 2025

Mar 5

New essay! — “Finding Héctor”

Mar 5

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My University’s LGBTQ+ Website Just Disappeared & I Want to Know Why

Fighting fascism & having fun in an age of strategic cruelty

Mar 2

My University’s LGBTQ+ Website Just Disappeared & I Want to Know Why

Mar 2

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We Love Syn

a roundup of beautiful sentences: 7

Hello Peeps,

Nov 23, 2024

a roundup of beautiful sentences: 7

Nov 23, 2024

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We Love Syn

a roundup of beautiful sentences: 6

anne carson, louise erdrich, heid erdrich, monsters, toni morrison; the funniest ‘disease’ ad

Nov 2, 2024

a roundup of beautiful sentences: 6

Nov 2, 2024

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Write A Catalyst

Break It Down: How 3-Month Goals Transformed My Writing Life

Boost your creative output with the structure of quarterly writing sprints

Oct 17, 2024

Break It Down: How 3-Month Goals Transformed My Writing Life

Oct 17, 2024

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We Love Syn

A roundup of beautiful sentences: 5

miuccia prada, m.s. redcherries, ruth gilmore wilson, miguel de quintana, rachel khong

Oct 16, 2024

A roundup of beautiful sentences: 5

Oct 16, 2024

Matthew Frye Castillo

Matthew Frye Castillo

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Verb dude. Writing Lecturer, Lehman College. Music, books, sustainability. Full-time gay, Latino Mixie. CA/AK raised. matthew at fryecastillo gmail com

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