I haven’t ever been able to imagine a life of loving one person to the exclusion of others. I am well suited to monogamy of the body, but not the home.

What if boundaries and borders are actually the only way people can love each other equally and freely? What if, without those boundaries, love becomes an act of humanitarian aid?

The DRC robots are not the perfect heroes I’d hoped for, but I love them anyway. I love them specifically. I love them right now, without assuming they will someday be better at doing the things they’re meant to do. I love them for reminding me that when you are working toward a large good thing, it’s the small stuff that often feels impossible. Ju

It was a reminder that being human is risky, and painful, and worth doing.

But now, years later, I’m still here, doing the bee skits. It’s Funnyman’s longest-recurring gag. And I find myself wondering: But will I ever celebrate my sixtieth wedding anniversary like my grandparents? Will I ever be young and beautiful and pregnant by the sea? I will not, I will not, I will not. Many futures are possible but these particular

My game, which is meant to be about punishing myself. Because when I see her, I think that what I was supposed to learn from that moment, but didn’t, was that sometimes you do cause pain. Because you make mistakes. You fuck up. Or just because you don’t want to date someone anymore. Because you make choices that make you happier and other people sa

But to be in love is to be partial. It is to be specific. All romantic love is conditional in that the condition is a person’s essential nature. Their them-ness. If your love for a person isn’t predicated on the condition that they are them right now as they are, and is instead predicated on their need for that love, or on your thinking that you co

This was what I wanted: for someone to prove to me not only that they weren’t a robot, but that they were real, and would make me real, too.

When the world is on fire, and bees want to give you smallpox, and aliens are rummaging around your womb, sometimes there is one person who you can come to trust completely.