I am trying to watch this thing and it's just so slow and almost all the characters talk the same way and I just don't understand the appeal here.

I don't want coming out to her to be like this: combative, over the phone, repeating the conversation for my dad. It's not a conversation I'm looking forward to anyway, obviously: I've known I was queer for five years now and everyone knows but my folks. I don't think they'll reject me or stop loving me. I just think…

Help me survive Passover, you guise.

"Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008. It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my own experiences there. It is a sketch because I want to test how I would tell these stories, and how I feel about sharing them. A larger…

A woman crouches by the wall of the skyway. She's got a cardboard sign: "My baby passed away. He was stillborn. 3 other kids. Homeless. Please help."

MayatiGT@gmail.com

I pass for straight. This is not my choice. It's an assumption people put on me, because I'm a cis woman wearing makeup, a long haircut, and clothes from the women's section of the store. It means I am dramatically less likely than a more stereotypically "queer-looking" woman to be attacked on the street by someone…

So I was smelling gas when I turned on my oven. The maintenance guy checked all the connections, but then spent the rest of the time trying to imply I was dumb for calling it in, because he didn't see anything wrong with it. "You do know what gas smells like, right? I mean, it's turning on, so it would just burn off…

Let's make this happen. It's not that cold out! It's practically spring!

...because you're never too busy for Tennant. (How did I not know this series was a thing?)

It makes a huge difference in the quality of your cooking. Or whatever you're making out of lentils.