Essays
To Fight Monkeypox, Remember the Lessons of Covid and H.I.V., for The New York Times
The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health, for The Atlantic
We Need to Bring Sexual Health Care to Places Where People Have Sex, for TIME Magazine
Circuit, an essay on pleasure, for The Los Angeles Review of Books
Fitness, an essay on having children at the end of the world, for Guernica
For Buzzfeed on “men’s lifestyle drugs”
For Guernica on Alexander Chee and gay mentorship
For the Medium Vertical on Paul Mpagi Sepuya and portraiture as queer storytelling
For The Village Voice on Truvada and growing up in the wake of AIDS
For The Los Angeles Review of Books on HIV and its impact on gay sex
For the Lambda Literary Review on gay memoir
For Gawker on bodies, the gym, and queerness
For Gawker on family and forgiveness
For The Rumpus on racism and geography in the American West
For The Los Angeles Review on REM, country music, queerness and the American West
For The Rumpus on how literature can confront the worst of the web
For Salon on the precarity of land in the American West
For The Huffington Post on how White Americans can confront racism
For The Feminist Wire on Simone Leigh and health care as art
For The Feminist Wire on Kara Walker’s Sugar Babies
For The Feminist Wire on White masculinity