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Last year, your favorite anxious autistic asshole skulked around Clexacon like a cat in a rocking chair factory. This year, it was once more unto the breach. Did she succeed? Did she make friends? Did she throw up all over the hotel? Time and this review will tell! Oh my god. The lines. Lines everywhere.…
From April 5 though 9, thousands of queer, trans, nonbinary, and otherwise spectacular folks descended on the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas for ClexaCon 2018. What followed was a long weekend celebrating the truths we all hold to be self-evident: that representation is important, that fans have the power to create change, and that women…
Here is one of the bravest quotes in all of literature: “I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.” The speaker of those words is, of course, Sarah of Sarah Plain and Tall, who is preparing to travel from Maine to the Midwestern prairies and meet the people…
The first time I ever encountered the word “misandry” I was well out of college and I had to look up what it meant. I read it on The Toast, the dearly-loved and much-missed bookish girl hangout site, and in its original context, I adored it. I don’t remember the specific article where the word…
1.Sad Cartoons, such as Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty. Every adoring writeup for these shows is like “how an alcoholic cartoon horse made us cry” and I just cannot imagine having the emotional reservoir to voluntarily put myself through something like that. (Also, I have not yet forgiven Will Arnett for whatever happened with Amy Poehler.) 2.Electronic…
The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday. This is a position I’ve gotten used to defending over the years, and every time I voice it, I can feel my friends searching my face for traces of irony (having one’s sincerity always suspected of sarcasm is one of the great trials of being a writer).…
First of all, it feels important to say that I don’t normally do the thing I’m about to describe. There are people who do; people whose whole social media raison d’etre is going head-to-head every day with Trump supporters. I’m not one of them. That’s not to say I don’t argue about politics on Twitter,…
Editor’s Note: On the weekend of March 3, thousands of women descended upon Las Vegas for the first ever Clexacon, a convention to celebrate queer media and queer fandom with actors, writers, and critics. This is one woman’s story. Clexacon was my first con. An informal survey suggested as many as half the people there were…
The R train was almost silent on Inauguration Day. It was rush hour, a little after 7:30 am, but people were somber. I felt that, but I was also excited, heading to the Manhattan City Clerk’s office to pick up a marriage license with my girlfriend, Jessi. We’d been talking about getting married for over…