Michael G. Williams (Durham, NC) Those are the words my father spoke as he held up a copy of my hometown newspaper. It was early 1992 and I was a high school senior deep in enemy territory. My parents were…
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Marlow Col (France)
Will “Better” Ever be Good Enough?
Guido Villalba Portel (Greensboro, NC) Toward the end of my senior year of high school, my guidance counselor approached me and tried to get me involved in a video which passed on the famous “It Gets Better” message to inspire…
Este no es un cepillo de dientes.
Allison Daniel (Greensboro, NC)
Masc 4 Masc: The Denial of Femininity in the Gay Community
Nathan Cornell (Greensboro, NC) Since years before the enforcing of the Hays Code ‒ a set of movie production guidelines which forbade “any inference of sexual perversion” (i.e homosexuality) in film‒ feminine men or “sissies” have been an on-screen euphemism…
RIP
Virginia Walker (Alexandria, VA)
Gate & Gave
Metabolic Lights
María DeGuzmán (Chapel Hill, NC) & Carisa Showden (Auckland, New Zealand)
A Southern Lineage Retraced: Excerpt from An AutoEthnography
Hooper Schultz (New York, NY) My great-uncle Charles never attended college. He was a harbor pilot, and attended an abbreviated pilot-ship course in New York City before returning to his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A story I often heard growing…
Toxic Masculinity Blues
Ben Fisher (Greensboro, NC) No fats No femmes Masculinity above all else I remember him saying, “I want to date a man. I have no respect for drag queens.” Let’s be clear The sissies and the fairies Are the…
Meditations on Queerness and “Coming Out”
Benjamin Fisher (Greensboro, NC) Everyone seems to have an opinion about what “Empire” actor Jussie Smollet’s appearance on Ellen’s show means or does not mean for the visibility of queer people. I just finished re-watching a segment on writer Janet…
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Peter Muniz Jr (Greensboro, NC) What is it about love that we crave so much? Now I know this is a kind of a cliché question to start off with but it still has yet to be answered. Is it…
NAKED
Leila Jinnah (New York, NY) The building of an identity is fundamentally internal, but in order to express this it becomes a practice of external presentation. A person’s relationship to how they present themselves is a visual cultivation of both…
