TikTok, Tumblr, and What It Means to Be a Modern-Day Queer
Since the dawn of Tumblr theory and ideology, the question of what goes into being queer has plagued the internet. Growing up on the blogging site placed many ideas in…
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Discovering My Sexuality, Alone in My Childhood Bedroom
Pink, yellow, and blue glowed on the screen of my iPhone 5c—I was transfixed by the colors. I was twelve years old, a middle school student in the fall of…
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Swift’s Secret Lovers: Intention, Perception, and Artistic Interpretation
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a large portion of quarantine renting my headspace to Taylor Swift. With a constant stream of her albums on repeat, I’ve inadvertently…
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10 WLW Films That Aren’t White Period Dramas
There’s been a long withstanding debate on the internet—specifically Twitter—over whether there are enough LGBT films featuring people of color. With the release of the first trailer of Francis Lee’s…
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The (Queer?) Opulence of Harry Styles
When beloved boy band One Direction broke up in 2015, millions of fans all over the world were devastated. For many, the band’s upbeat pop anthems and meticulously styled matching…
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The Complicated Legacy of “Paris is Burning”
“If you’re going to do this, you’re going to have to be stronger than you could ever imagine.” These are the opening words of Paris Is Burning, one of the…
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The Politics of Queer Skate Culture
Brimming with teenage angst and rebellion, he does an ollie in a Thrasher hoodie. We watched him on grainy VHS tape montages and heard about him in Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er…
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Club Quarantine and Queer Cyberspaces in the Age of COVID-19
If we can’t see each other IRL, we’ll go URL. At 9:35 PM EST I was sitting on my bed feeling just the right amount of high with only a…
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