Reporter’s Notebook

Life Has Hills

Inside one young, gay Ugandan man’s struggle to navigate the intersection of poverty and discrimination, pain and hope

“We wanted to have Christmas.”

It was December 2014, and as Moses looked around his hovel in a slum in Kampala, Uganda, there was…

“Need Is a Very Good Teacher”

I’m not a hugger.

Counting the Costs

Nobody told me how much writing and promoting a book would cost me. I’m at $30,000…

Cry, Freedom: My 2015 in Review

This was the year I went full-time freelance. Which, depending on how you look at it, meant liberty or…

The Meaning of a Meal

There are things my mom and I still have trouble talking about, like my gayness…

Why Are My Winters So Long?: A Visit to Westboro

Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church