I think of you when I’m eating arepas I’ve done that a lot this spring More than I’ve done in the past at least Before that frigid January eve — That day we got pollo arepas After spending the day tripping on shrooms In an apartment above Rumbamba I got…

Outside, people are protesting for Yale to pay its fair share. Or at least that’s what the sign says, from the brief glimpse that Katia manages to catch. We are in Saybrook F21 together, the empty suite across from her own. We’re listening to music made by queer women (first…

On November 25, 2020, Clea Duvall’s feature debut Happiest Season premiered on Hulu to popular and critical success. The film, which stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as a lesbian couple going home to “meet the parents” for the holidays, has been coined “The Lesbian Christmas Movie” by the liberal…

a fall/winter 2020 love/fear letter I want two boys and a girl, in that order. The baby girl will be named Dahlia Rose or Georgia Vine or Delos (short: Dell) Anaheim or Lottie or Poppy or Ernestine (short: Nesa) or Lorelei or Winn or Esmeralda (short: Esme) or Blake or…

Krystal rolled over in her bed and groaned when the harsh mid-morning light grazed her cracked lids. 11 AM. Great. She had been hoping for at least noon. Today’s agenda was the same as yesterdays and the day before that, yet also somehow, her therapist liked to remind her, distinct…

To All The People — Left, Right, Somewhere In Between, or Off the Spectrum Entirely — Who Believe Their Views are Sacrosanct — I think my pediatrician is Republican. I am a hypochondriac. It’s fine, really — both facts. It’s just weird that I never hypothesized the former after years of me, a hypochondriac, visiting a hypochondriac’s best friend, her pediatrician. And I do love my pediatrician. Perhaps due to the many times…

Dissecting Why Black Girls at PWIs Dread the Question: “Do you have a boyfriend?” — This piece was written in May, 2016. I edited nothing except to correct minor missed words and add additional punctuation and paragraph breaks. The prompt for this paper was simply ‘Why?’ and the task was to unpack a question of interest to you. I wrote this piece at 15 years…

You’ve been here before. You got this. This is what makes life beautiful. Everything is literally fine. It’s fine. You said what you had to say. This is okay. You know this feeling. You can keep going. It’s okay to be sad. Everything will be fine. Everything will be okay…

A What-Feels-Like-Prehistoric Take On Cancel Culture — This essay was initially written in September, 2018. Slight edits have been made for this edition. “Yo, Taylor. I’m really happy for you, and I’ll let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time. Of all time.” Kanye West to Taylor Swift after ripping her…