Hits: 11 Cuando mis amigos iban en pos de empleos interesantes y la facultad de derecho, yo me fui a México detrás de un chico. Diez meses después de salir de la universidad, estaba sentada en una pequeña cabaña de …
Pinned Under the Bodies of Men
Hits: 15 I thought being sexually bold was a game I was allowed to play. I had no idea of the punishment that awaited me — or the surprising healing to come. I have been pinned under the body of …
Who Is Trusted to Have a Child?
Hits: 9 As a married gay man and an emergency pediatrician, I continue to wrestle with expectations of having a ‘traditional’ family life. A few years ago, while I was completing my pediatrics residency, I spent a month working in …
Never Give Your Child Five Names
Hits: 20 If you do, he may never be able to leave you. Thirty-six years ago, heavy with child, I argued with my husband about what to name the baby. We knew it was a boy and eventually settled on …
What They Paid for Their Weddings
Hits: 13 Former brides reveal where they splurged and where they scrimped for their nuptials — and what (if anything) they would have done differently. One couple spent less than $2,000 for an intimate wedding at a local hotel. Another …
Why Won’t Simon Ateba Stop Shouting?
Hits: 13 The Today News Africa gadfly has become a hero on the right, thanks to his confrontational behavior in the White House briefing room. After 19 months of making a scene, Simon Ateba finally heard from the White House …
Why My Father Called Me Son, Daughter, He, She and It
Hits: 10 As my father lost his memory, he began to regard my gender as increasingly fluid. My father and I were in Starbucks about a year after he learned he had Alzheimer’s when he looked me up and down …
My Fetish for a Second Skin
Hits: 5 As a gay Korean American, I yearned for the privilege of being heterosexual or white. So I began wearing latex, a new skin. Growing up Korean American in a pearly white city at the foot of the Rocky …
La última lista de compras que le hice
Hits: 12 Una botella de vino tinto, cloro, jabón en polvo y una sábana blanca. Era todo lo que necesitaba para exhumar los huesos de mi esposo. Incluso muerto, tus dientes son perfectos. Estoy junto a tu tumba abierta casi …
Was I Married to a Stranger?
Hits: 7 I thought I knew my husband of 20 years. I didn’t — and still don’t. When the lockdown started in March 2020, my husband and I decided to quarantine with our two youngest children, then 15 and 12, …