acceptance – Undusted Corners

out-living

CW: reference to sexual assault 1. He was trying to prove that I wasn’t a lesbian. Or so he claimed, when he didwhat he insisted that he had to do,while his intellectually disabled brother watched cartoons just outside the closed bedroom door. I was 18. He was 21. When he was done,I drank wine coolersContinue reading “out-living”

C. × sinensis

The most surprising orangeI’ve ever eatenwas from a street vendor in Londonin 1997. Had I ever had citrus grown in the Mediterranean? My grandfather would send us home from our visits to Florida with mounding bags of citrus from the trees in his yard. Oranges, Tangerines, Grapefruit, I would never eat. My Yiayia and PappouContinue reading “C. × sinensis”

Modah Ani*

I. Is it overly meta to blog about a blog on the blog you’re blogging about? II. On the anniversary of this experiment born out of a whim born out of an unexpected—and very welcome—breaking open of self, it seems apt to revisit not just where I began, but also where I now find myselfContinue reading “Modah Ani*”

this is not a playlist.

What are your tiniest, most insignificant regrets? When I was 19 or so, I met a guy at a show at the 40 Watt, the way one does—or I assume the way one does when the music is too loud to carry on an audible conversation—a lot of you noticing them noticing you noticing themContinue reading “this is not a playlist.”

the body (first movement)

I. Once upon a time, the mother of a man I loved told me that she was surprised her son was attracted to me, given my body type, as she had been taught that men were typically attracted to women with a physicality like their mother’s. “I have quite large breasts,” she pointed out, “andContinue reading “the body (first movement)”