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God help me after this I will never have a Thought about The Ultimatum: Queer Love ever again
How queers fail each other.
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God help me I have even more thoughts about The Ultimatum: Queer Love
On universality and specificity and what it means to make a show about Nothing
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God help me I have additional thoughts about The Ultimatum: Queer Love
I'm a Lexi truther and Vanessa truther and I will fight everyone
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On Writing and the Business of Writing
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Things I'm Bad At: Residencies
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The Erotics of Erotics
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When Whales Fly
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God help me I have additional thoughts about The Ultimatum: Queer Love
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God help me I have thoughts about The Ultimatum: Queer Love
It is so clear that Mal wants to be little spoon. Will someone please just let them be little spoon.
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Introducing: Induction
Ghosts are sexy and you can't convince me otherwise.
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Of the Beginning of Days
On Taylor Swift & Women's Lives as Lore
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Tiny Beds in Every House
Am I my brother's keeper? Am I?
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If You Read This Story Out Loud
Watch now (54 secs) | On HBAOP, and luck, and ambition.
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The Erotics of Erotics
How to write sex scenes knowing other people will read them.
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A Fate Worse Than Marriage
On Donna Noble, and what it means to just say things.
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