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Michael Waters

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historian // copywriter by day // author of THE OTHER OLYMPIANS (out now from @fsgbooks!)
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Why 'God's Own Country' Is the Rare Queer Film to Feature a Happy Ending

Why 'God's Own Country' Is the Rare Queer Film to Feature a Happy Ending

Queer cinema is having a moment. A year after Moonlight took home best picture at the Oscars, groundbreaking …

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Life and Death Online | Hazlitt

Life and Death Online | Hazlitt

On December 21st, 2014, hundreds of players gathered online within the game to mourn the death of one of thei…

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Internet Friends: How a Blogging Community Confidante Helped Me Come Out

Internet Friends: How a Blogging Community Confidante Helped Me Come Out

The first time I admitted I was gay, I burrowed into my bedroom blankets and typed out a Gchat message to a g…

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How Instagram's Beauty Boys Are Changing Our Ideas About Gender

How Instagram's Beauty Boys Are Changing Our Ideas About Gender

Ninh is part of a growing class of makeup artists - known as "beauty boys" - who discuss life, sexuality, and…

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DMs From Beyond the Grave Are Changing How We Grieve

DMs From Beyond the Grave Are Changing How We Grieve

This October, when NaKina Talbert glanced out the window of her temporary home in Guatemala and saw a volcano…

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The 19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their Language

The 19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their Language

In 1899, a pair of smugglers were crossing the border between Lithuania and East Prussia. Clutching their pac…

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Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance - Electric Literature

Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance - Electric Literature

Queer listeners stuck with her after "Call Me Maybe" because we recognized our stories in her songs T he firs…

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