The weight of masculinity is robbing trans masc persons of love
Trans masc persons struggle to be seen and desired as masculine while they resist toxic tropes. Will cishet and queer communities catch up?
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“I have you in me”: How my queer lover saved my life
Sometimes, love looks like someone holding your hand through a panic attack
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An Ode to My Queer Platonic Lovers
Queer platonic love is the ailaan [proclamation] that my love can form any and every shape, that it can shift, that it is beyond definition.
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I’m a pansexual woman, I married a straight man. Then everyone started erasing me.
When you’re queer but people don’t know it, they tell you the worst queerphobic jokes.
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How chronic illness and neurodivergence shaped a queer love story
Pratyusha and Anushree show what it takes to build a relationship in the face of everyday mental and physical health challenges.
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Love and loss in Multai
Queer love is often forbidden in small town India. Two women, separated by caste, class, and religion, dared to defy the order.
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There’s someone just like you: The possibilities of trans loving trans
The becoming assertion of trans persons loving each other
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With queerness, we learn that friendship can sustain life
Understanding the critical role of friendship through the lens of queerness.
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How a trans woman found herself through her chosen families
Muskan was stifled by her biological family. Her chosen families, despite their transience, helped her grow
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How Manipur’s ethnic violence ripped a queer friendship apart
The collapse of a deep Meitei–Kuki friendship shows how Manipur’s nascent queer movement is fraying, threatening its hard-won gains in the violence-torn Indian state.
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Living and loving in the absence of sex and romance
Aromantic and asexual people are doubly invisible — both in the cishet and queer worlds.
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