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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

The Hollywood Reporter — Queer cinema is having a moment. A year after Moonlight took home best picture at the Oscars, groundbreaking films like the Daniela Vega-starring A Fantastic Woman and Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name both won major awards. But not every important queer film of the year made the Oscar ballot.
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Life and Death Online | Hazlitt

Life and Death Online | Hazlitt

Hazlitt — On December 21st, 2014, hundreds of players gathered online within the game to mourn the death of one of their own. He went by the username Codex Vahlda, a twenty-nine-year-old who had suffered complications from renal failure. At the time, Vahlda was brain dead; his family was keeping him alive-they wanted a chance to say goodbye.
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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

Slate — The first time I admitted I was gay, I burrowed into my bedroom blankets and typed out a Gchat message to a girl I hadn't met. My parents were asleep, and I was alone, but I still tilted the laptop screen forward like someone would see.
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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

them. — Ninh is part of a growing class of makeup artists - known as "beauty boys" - who discuss life, sexuality, and celebrity crushes while applying colorful eyeshadows and lipsticks for audiences on Instagram and YouTube. Many beauty boys have amassed millions of followers and partnerships with major makeup brands.
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DMs From Beyond the Grave Are Changing How We Grieve

DMs From Beyond the Grave Are Changing How We Grieve

Vice — This October, when NaKina Talbert glanced out the window of her temporary home in Guatemala and saw a volcano erupting less than 100 miles away, her first instinct was to snap a photo. "It's pretty far away, but it booms like a cannon!"
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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

Atlas Obscura — In 1899, a pair of smugglers were crossing the border between Lithuania and East Prussia. Clutching their packs, they lay on a bank along the Prussian part of the river Šešupe, and for hours they studied the movements of the guards on the other side. They could not afford to get caught.
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Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance - Electric Literature

Carly Rae Jepsen's Queer Renaissance - Electric Literature

Electric Literature — Queer listeners stuck with her after "Call Me Maybe" because we recognized our stories in her songs T he first thing to know about Carly Rae Jepsen is that she isn't really there. Her glossy pop hooks seem crafted for ubiquity, step one in the inevitable march toward her knighthood as a central pop figure alongside the likes of Ariana Grande.
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