Saved by Sara
The Queer Art of Fucking Your Friends
The weeks after the book’s publication were filled with interviews where I discussed the pursuit of sexual freedom at the very moment when I was being relieved of its burdens. In my public appearances I spoke as a fraud, because for all of my optimism in the book, which was about my willful search to find meaning and sexual connection while being a
... See moreEmily Witt • Health and Safety: A Breakdown
I always wanted more from him. The desire never went away, was never fully satiated even when we were together. This constant longing kept me company. I actually didn’t mind it. When you’re in the closet, you learn to flatten your insides as a means of survival, so longing, by contrast, wasn’t so bad.
Ryan O'Connell • Just by Looking at Him: A Novel
When you are instantly protective of someone, a sliver of a bond forms. I have always felt protective of other women. And I have always trusted them on impact and given them all I could. For while it is men who I crave and desire, who I would like to lie down next to and smell their skin and allow them within me in an intense and foreign way, it is
... See moreJami Attenberg • I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
The richest relationships are often those that don’t fit neatly into the preconceived slots we have made for the archetypes we imagine would populate our lives—the friend, the lover, the parent, the sibling, the mentor, the muse. We meet people who belong to no single slot, who figure into multiple categories at different times and in different mag... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
So much of it is about the aspects in queer culture that straight people fear, that straight society fears: strength and independence in women; vulnerability and intimacy in men; the upending of gender and family roles;
David Demchuk • Red X: A Novel
