Sex Education stands out for focusing on the emotional impact that sex can have on discovering yourself, over and over again. I’ll admit: When Sex Education first aired on Netflix back in 2019, I was skeptical that they were going to get it right. Long before the show aired, media portrayals of sex education were...
Tag: Relationships
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I Wish I’d Spent More Time With My Friends Before The Pandemic
This pandemic has made me realize how much I took my friends for granted while searching for romance. I never would’ve thought that my craving for platonic touch could be more intense than the erotic. By Love Akinkunle The last person I hugged is a man whose number I don’t even have saved anymore. We...
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Stop Terrorizing Us With Your Half-Baked Takes on Interracial Relationships
There’s nothing easy about interracial relationships to begin with. And not enough people are honest about it. It’s a new year! Which means it is time, yet again, for another terrible-ass take on interracial relationships. Too on the nose? Yeah, but you’d be a little annoyed too if literally everywhere you looked, someone else was...
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What The Discourse On Emotional Boundaries Failed To Address
What this discourse failed to communicate was that any healthy relationship should be built on mutual and reciprocal trust, respect, and care. This essay contains discussions of sexual assault and mentions r/pe It’s been an exhausting past couple of weeks on the hellmouth known as Twitter. As I was writing about celebrities conflating criticism with...
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My Culture is Not Your Toy: A Gay Japanese Man’s Perspective on Queer Eye Japan
How Queer Eye damages the very people and culture they were trying to save. This article was originally published on Medium can be found here. By Steven Wakabayashi For the newest season of Queer Eye, the Fab 5 head to Japan to transform the lives of four Japanese people. Except, they don’t. Thinking that it...
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We Cannot Demand That Robyn Crawford Separate Herself From Whitney Houston
Robyn Crawford deserves to have the space to share how much she loved Whitney Houston. We cannot demand that once-closeted queer folks never speak of their relationships. By Vanessa Taylor By default of being human, there is not an aspect of our lives that exists in complete separation from anyone else. Our stories are tangled...
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Desirability: Do You Really Love Fat People When You Can’t Even See Us Beyond The Political?
The reality is that our bodies take up more space than the world ever makes for us, yet somehow desirability finds a way to keep us out. I am fat. I have been fat my entire life. And for most of my life, I have also been a fairly popular person. Befriending and being surrounded...
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The Road to Polyamory: How CBD Helped Me Interrogate Feelings of Jealousy and Insecurity
Embracing polyamory, I feel blessed with how much more love I’m able to experience. Does the wanting ever go away? I don’t know. By Shelly Rose In the winter of 2015, at 19-years-old, I sat at my aunt’s kitchen island in Bountiful, Utah. We had developed a close bond after we discovered that we had...
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Why Dating For Asexual People is Unnecessarily Difficult
Dating as asexual is hard because it is incredibly difficult for allosexual people to understand a sexual identity that does not center sex. I marathon-watched season five of “Bojack Horseman” in a single day because of who I am as a person. It’s been a couple months since the season dropped on Netflix, but it’s...
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There Is A Real #HimToo, And It Isn’t About False Rape Accusations.
There is no war on men, but there is a war on patriarchy and our lives depend on us winning it. [TW: mentions of groping, sexual harassment, sexual violence, rape and physical violence.] I remember growing up scared of many things: dirt, falling and scraping my skin on gravel, spiders, losing my parents in...