Essays

I Didn’t Invite My Mother To My Wedding (And I Don’t Regret It)

For Cosmopolitan

“Lung cancer. Brain cancer. Terminal.

The grief crashed over me again, fresh as the day I hung up the phone for the last time. I had to decide what would be worse: speaking with her again and letting her be part of my life and my wedding, pulling me back into the vortex of manipulation and anguish; or letting her die without ever speaking to her again.” Read More

I Went To The Same Orgasm Workshop as Ilana on Broad City

For Vice

“At the beginning of the first workshop, I was damp with sweat from the July heat and my own nerves. I was about to be a voyeur and an exhibitionist throughout the nude "erotic recess"—code for an hour of masturbating in a lotus-like arrangement of yoga mats, towels, pillows, blankets, and so many vibrators.” Read More

The Rise of The Male Makeup Master And The Strange Power of Artifice

For The Establishment

“Still today, many men who may very well not identify with wearing makeup do choose to wear face paint to sporting events. […] We see face paint as an entirely different substance from the makeup found at Sephora. It’s almost as though we believe makeup is femininity; that womanhood resides in a compact.” Read More