Chelsea Cristene

The first rule: Unrequited love sucks. The second rule took regrettably longer for me to get a handle on: My unilateral crush was not this guy’s problem.

I realized that allergies, much like mental health, are largely misunderstood and often dismissed as trivial or exaggerated.

Illness is intensely personal, but it never affects the person diagnosed alone.

Knowing a few compulsive liars over the course of my life has taught me some things. Living during Trump’s presidency has reinforced them.

If Trump is right (there’s a first time for everything) and we need to state what a problem is before solving it, then let’s state it now. Radical white terrorism.

I see no such kerfuffle over straight men at gay bars, so it appears that this brand of exclusivity is Dicks Only.

I reject the insistence that a woman can’t choose what makes her feel beautiful without regard for the judgement of others.

When men’s dating preferences were observed, the age of women they expressed interest in never (never!) deviated from the early 20s.

Thank you, Isolde, for making me pause, for encouraging me to ditch the pocket computer for conversation with someone new.

Chipping away at the problem of bisexual erasure starts with living truth out loud.