“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
—Joan Didion
“I feel cluttered when there is no time to analyze experience. That is the silt — unexplored experience that literally chokes the mind.”
—May Sarton
“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.”
—Sylvia Plath
Please enjoy these links to some published writing by me!
• 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
• 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)
• 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)