Love and Disclosure as a Trans Woman

Allison has a boyfriend.

The Breakup Playlist: Healing Through Music

Songs for the different stages of a breakup

How to Reduce Your Sexual Guilt

Every now and then, I’m filled with so much shame and remorse right after having sex, that I desperately…

The facts and in-betweens of it

You seem to have misunderstood. I’m so sorry I never took the time to clarify; I thought you knew when…

Endless Endings

I just want it to be over.
I thought without feeling
two springtimes ago.
Two long years later
I find myself slipping
down a…

I’m Single and Now What?

There’s a loaded question that keeps happening to me. It feels like a gun being pressed against my temples.

Love me differently

If I love you
like you love me,
if we both keep it real
in love
but not so emotional
like you
always so practical
then our…

About Loving Me

if i send you
hearts and kisses
a couple of times
a day saying
i love you,
and you send
words back
with no emojis
whatsoever,
how…

Subject Line: My Love Wrote Me a Letter

Between the crevices and the spaces,
And the vowels mouthed by rote -
In each and every…

Love Personified

Love is in the air
A little unjust, maybe a little unfair
Spending time, briefly our lives intertwine
Moments so benign
We often…

My Thoughts at Times in the Moscow Metro in Winter 2013 — Spring 2014

“I don’t know why some of the men in the Moscow metro rub the back of my thigh and my butt whenever it’s crowded in the subway car. It’s always just one guy every time I stand, squeezed by everyone in the car…