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Gay Men and Chrisian Wombs: Surrogacy’s New Frontier
A feature story for NYMag.com When Melissa officially announced her surrogacy to the congregation of the Hugoton Baptist Church in Hugoton, Kansas, where her husband Shane was the pastor, a woman stood up to interrupt: “So, you are really going to go through with this? You are giving this church and Jesus a bad name.” [...]
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First piece for Thought Catalog
Excited to be doing stuff with Thought Catalog. If you have been following my work for awhile you might notice that these days I am mostly just dong a lot of freelance reporting… so I can use the creative oulet. My first piece is about Tori Amos and Fiona Apple I’m at a birthday party [...]
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The Story of ‘No’: S&M Sex Clubs Sprout Up on Ivy Campuses, and Coercion Becomes an Issue
Feature for The New York Observer. Peep the clip or Read it Online
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Cosmopolitan ‘True Crime’ Feature
Story I wrote for the November Issue:
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Some quick pieces I’ve written in the last ~Month or Whatever
The Last G-Chat in the Series Buzzfeed| A Failed Foray into Polyamory: Romi and Nadia knew each other on the Internet. They were both photographers and bloggers, Nadia in New York City and Romi on the West Coast. The two had started following one another’s work, and soon they were e-mailing. Though they lived on opposite [...]
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Talking with a Sex Psychic
Source: Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed I wrote an ‘as told to’ with a phone sex psychic about her iiiiiiinteresting job. Check it out: Most of the guys who call me do it on a lark. They find me on Niteflirt, which is an online directory for phone sex. I am the only “sex psychic” on the site which [...]
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Sex-Ed Fails
New York high school students learn in sex ed that the definition of “vagina” is “sperm depository” and that gay people don’t exist according to a new study [PDF] by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The students also learn that if you have sex you WILL get an STD. The NYCLU report came out this month, [...]
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Other People’s G-Chats: Queer Love in Jamaica
Source: Chris Ritter for BuzzFeed Raquelle says Jamaica can be a beautiful place to fall in love. She says Kingston is everything you see on travel ads with white sand soft as floor pillows. Though it also isn’t gay-friendly. And as much as she’d thought about escaping, Jamaica is home. Except it isn’t very hospitable for [...]
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Binge on my Thought Catalog Articles
Excerpt from The Goth Phase | An Exploration in Persona The Dark Phase in itself is femme; is inherently sort-of queer. I imagine that when goth became a scene — the Batcave in London in 1982 — that the more dramatic, poetic dimension of Goth made it a safe haven; an alternative to the [...]