“I feel cluttered when there is no time to analyze experience. That is the silt — unexplored experience that literally chokes the mind.”
—May Sarton
Please enjoy these links to some published writing by me!
HuffPost:
• How I Found Solace In Judy Garland’s Struggles In Hollywood
• What ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Taught Me About Growing Up — And Being Single
• How ‘Felicity’ Shaped My College Experience
• What ‘Party of Five’ Taught Me About Grief and Growing Up
• How Rewatching ‘Glee’ Healed My Teenage Self
(and more)
CBC Arts:
• As a closeted gay teen, daytime soap operas helped me create myself
• A Little Dirty Laundry: The Forgotten Legacy of Grace Metalious and PEYTON PLACE
• Friends With the Monster: The Fate of Truman Capote’s ANSWERED PRAYERS
• The Age of Un-Innocence: Feminine Loneliness in BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY and SEX AND THE CITY
• Ursula Nordstrom and the Queer Revolution of the 20th Century Children’s Book
• The Loneliest Doll: What Ever Happened to Dare Wright?
• It’s My Mess: How I’ve Scrapbooked My Way Through Mental Illness
(and more)
• How Female Friendship Films Help Me Embrace My Queerness
• Why ‘Rhoda’ is Still Worth Revisiting Five Decades Later
• How ‘My Girl’ Helped Me Process My Own Childhood Grief
• Why Did It Take ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 15 Seasons to Add Gay Male Characters?
• How ‘Ally McBeal’ Influenced the Modern Cringe Comedy
• Why ‘The Family Stone’ is My Favorite Queer Holiday Film
(and more)
• Fefe Dobson is Ready to Rock Again
• Liz Phair Knew Pop Was a Cultural Construct Before You Did
• Alias’ Carl Lumbly and Michael Vartan On Its Legacy and Streaming Rebirth
• How Strong, Angry Women in Pop Culture Guided Me Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Alessia Cara’s ‘In the Meantime’ is a Spellbinding and Necessary Body of Work
(and more)
Slant Magazine:
• Ben Platt Honeymind Review: An Open-Hearted Tribute to Love
• Joshua Bassett The Golden Years Review: A Debut That Takes Its Sweet Time
• Shawn Mendes Shawn Review: An Intimate Bid for Self-Discovery
(and more)
Reactor Magazine:
• Orphan Black Is My Ultimate Comfort Rewatch for Dark Times
• On Race Relations and Queerness in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven (2002)
• Toxic Disney Superstardom and ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie’
(and more)
• 6 Tips for Surviving Anxiety as an Introvert
• Holy Hell! The Spirit Room Turns 20
• Revisit: Amy Grant: Heart in Motion
• Criminally Underrated: G.I. Jane
(and more)
“Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.”
—Nora Ephron
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