“[…] I consider my dog to be my current life partner, after years of traveling together and accepting that another human is not necessarily suitable for this road situation.”… read more
“A year ago I came out, and today I’m wearing my identity across my chest.”… read more
“Poetry, I told my friends, is still where I feel happiest and freest […] For true creative freedom, I need forms that demand compression, restraint.”… read more
“[…] it takes hours of mental wrangling every morning to get over myself and produce, to convince myself that what I’m writing has potential and meaning and is not just the expression of a hot-headed delusion.”… read more
“I want to write queer books that reflect our queer lives, bodies, relationships, and the worlds we build for each other.”… read more
“I’m very good at being inconsistent, which sometimes leads to bad coffee. It also leads to good pancakes.”… read more
“[…] I wish Pride could be something closer to Publishers Clearing House, where someone shows up at the door of a closeted teen living in some oppressive Middle American state with an oversized check and whisks them away.”… read more
“I feel like my life is totally constructed by jobs: the freelance ones that pay the bills, the ‘literary’ ones that don’t really pay but that I feel hold me together.”… read more
“My therapist reminds me, ‘If it can’t be fixed, death can heal it.’ Meaning, endings are not inherently or only traumatic. Some things are just a letting go, or a putting down of a burden that isn’t working…”… read more
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from graphic novelist Meags Fitzgerald… read more
