Favorite Essays
Hitting the Wall on the 7 Train
How an overcrowded subway train is a metaphor for our immigration debate. Read it here
Texas, Meet My Trans Teen
If you knew my son, you'd understand why gender-affirming care is not child abuse. It's quite the opposite. Read it here
The Real Goal of the "Don't Say Gay" Bill
The Florida bill prohibiting classroom discussion about LGBT people is not about saying "gay" — it's about defining what's normal. Read it here
The Prom Date
Four decades earlier we had danced the night away to Abba. But as he lay dying, what was I? Read it here
The Apartment
I was sure my spinster life would fit neatly into 700 square feet. I was wrong (on so many counts). Read it here
Finding Christopher
For a decade of my childhood I had had a little brother. Then he was gone, because he was "only" a foster child, and the system had worked. But had it? What had become of him? Read it here