Longreads

What does a campus shooting feel like? 

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

Notes on cruising. 

Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.

The cross-border journeys of a beloved symbol