More Writing By Me

“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

Book Riot:

• 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)

Collider:

• 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)

PopMatters:

• 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

High on Films:

• On Race Relations and Queerness in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven (2002)

• Toxic Disney Superstardom and ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie’

(and more)

Introvert, Dear:

• 6 Tips for Surviving Anxiety as an Introvert

Spectrum Culture:

• Revisit: Taylor Swift: Red

• 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