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On Processes of Becoming: A Tale of Three Taylors

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And I can tell When you get nervous You think being yourself means being unworthy And it’s hard to love with a heart that’s hurting “…queer as not about who you’re having sex with, that can be a dimension of it, but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around…

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On writing, connection, and emotions in a pandemic

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what will we be to each other / if the world doesn’t end? [1] ~~~ I write to be heard. I write to understand. I write to be understood. I write to share myself with you. I write so that maybe I won’t feel so alone. I write so that maybe we’ll connect. At some point earlier…

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On Hope and Despair

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“…Maybe it’s all gonna turn out alright / Oh, I know that it’s not / but I have to believe that it is…”  – Julien Baker “Appointments” ~~~  Today is my 37th birthday. Birthdays are interesting markers for people like me. I spend a lot of my daily energy struggling with thoughts about not particularly wanting…

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Completing the New Masculinities Playlist 2018

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Hi friends! With apologies for the delay, it’s time to round out the final five entries in the New Masculinities Playlist for 2018. Track 8 – Anna Calvi, “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” When Anna Calvi took to Instagram to announce “Hunter,” her 2018 album, she made its moral core and message…

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It Might Be Possible to Be an Ethical Sports Fan

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Will Leitch, the founder of Deadspin, recently published an article for NY Mag entitled “It Might Be Impossible to Be an Ethical Sports Fan” in which he captures how confusing sports fandom has been in recent years. He describes the joy of watching Jason Collins become the first openly gay NBA player, the “mental gymnastics”…

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New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 7 “Emotion”

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Hi friends!  How about a straightforward musical affirmation for this latest entry to the New Masculinities Playlist? Just in case you ever wanted to hear an indie rock song tell you that your emotions are what make you beautiful, that, “you can scream and you can shout, you can let it all hang out, you…

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Thoughts on/of Suicide

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“Getting help for mental health is not enough. We live in a world where people don’t want to live in it anymore. We need to change the world.” – @nikkimwalls ~~~ I think about suicide a lot. That is a loaded sentence. I mean it in two specific ways: 1. I often think about killing…

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New Masculinities Playlist 2018: Track 6 “We’ll Build A House”

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I hereby inform you, dear readers, that the year 1993 is now 25 years ago. If that seems startling to you, and the turn of the century and millennium has obscured your ability to conduct simple subtraction, well then (as sitcom writers in 1993 might well have penned) “join the club.” Even as I count…

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