Personal Stories Assorted Pleasantries, Minor Exaggerations, and White Lies I Plan to Employ At My High School Reunion
Our intrepid author heads back to her fancy boarding school for her ten-year high school reunion.
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Personal Stories 
Personal Stories Porridge: An Emigrant Story
"It's the fear that keeps you up at night, anxiety that eats away all of the accomplishments, because if you get sent back, everything evaporates."
Personal Stories “Not So Bad”: On Consent, Non-Consent, and Trauma
"We know it when there aren’t words to describe what happened": Christina Tesoro on navigating the space between consensual sex, non-consent, and trauma.
Family Learning the Controls: How Nintendo Helped Me Live with Asperger’s Syndrome
"A game gives you a world you’re meant to understand": The author on how his love of Nintendo helped him navigate his childhood with Asperger's Syndrome.
LGBT A Trans Girl Out West: On Transitioning, Community, and Even Cowgirls Bleed
Anastasia Valens on the interactive game 'Even Cowgirls Bleed' and how she relates it to her own experience as a trans woman.
Family On My Mother and the Person I Could Have Become
"The fake me created by my mother has come to mirror the differences between her and me -- two sides of a coin that can't be reconciled."
Family Notes on a New Age Childhood
"Sometimes . . . I am filled like a lantern with faith in a world that is by definition sacred, whatever its failures. And yet I do not believe."
Family Dare To Be Different
"I grew up wishing to be the same. I grew up wishing I could dare to be different."
LGBT Genesis
"I was nineteen and surrounded by rainbow banners. I heard the hymns of my past raised up not to the god of my childhood, but to something higher."
The Butter Anyone Who Misses Anything Can Work Hard and Fast to Return to the Dead
Maya Weeks on gender, labor, and quitting as insurrection.
Relationships To Build Up and Takeaway From
"When I look back at my sexual history -- those singular still shots and picture postcards -- so little of it involves the actual physical act."
The Butter My Hair Thing
A history in hair.
Relationships The Big Open-Ended Question: On Loving and Accepting My Asperger’s
"Over the years I’ve come to realize that without my Asperger’s, I’d be a completely different person."
Health Color-Coding My Life: On Colors, Sight, and Darkness
As she recovers from a recent eye surgery, Jacqueline Steiger reflects on her relationship with colors and how a unique system helps her navigate the world.
The Butter For Years I Dreamed of Ink Stains
"Most important is to understand that everything is woven together—the secrets and the not eating and the string of men I turned into numbers."
