The Sludge of Self-Care
The Instagram stories are always telling me how to take care of myself. It’s helpful, mostly. Except for when it isn’t.
Utterance
White Privilege: What to Expect When You Weren’t Expecting
As a white woman who was once caught off-guard by her own unexpected privilege, I wanted to share what I learned and guide you through this new phase in your life.
Study Shows That 9 Out of 10 People Prefer Tacos to Dating: A Love Letter to Tacos
You can’t touch your face, but you can touch your face with a taco.
#19Words || 2019
A few weeks ago we asked you to encapsulate 2019 in 19 words, and what amazing, thoughtful, funny, poignant responses we received!! Thank you to everyone who made the last year of Qween City the best one yet, and here’s to more wonder in 2020.
ORIGINAL WORK: H.M. Shaw, “Vessel Presents: Seashell Stout”
I never say that I’m an artist. If anything, I make messes and I live in my head.
ORIGINAL WORK: Trio
I see
How quickly your
stance/tone/vocabulary/overtalking
tendencies/comfort with me buying my own
drink/and tendency to flinch
when I speak
in femme
changes
ORIGINAL WORK: Poet Boy
I would say I knew you were trouble when you walked
in
but that would be a lie
#18 Words || 2018
Whether you gave 2018 the smackdown like Ocasio-Cortez to every one of her critics or you shutdown like our government, 2018 likely left you feeling some type of way. Utterance presents 18 word summaries of how it left some of our readers feeling.
ORIGINAL WORK: Alternative Universe Where I Live in Hollywood in the Twentieth Century
In which I am famous across the continental United States, and you work at a corner-store in Erie County.
ORIGINAL WORK: Where I Am From
I believe I begin with water,
Some ocean all life came from
ORIGINAL WORK: No Title | Part I
Justin came to the door to get me and meet my parents, like all assholes do at first.
#17Words || 2017
Diana, Who Has Inside Her the Seeds of All Creation Yet to Come: Sits on My Porch and Chain Smokes
You’re different though. You don’t need like the whole sky open above you to breathe.
TONIGHT AT THE PIT: NIXON AND REAGAN FIGHT TWO BUCK TONY
No one told us anything except to smile more, look less angry, to talk with less spit in our mouths.
“To Samo”
“I cannot remember a time when I perceived one mom as more important than the other, one as more loving, one as more ‘real,’ and I never will.”