Dear Smashera, For most of my life I’ve struggled with my gender identity. Biologically, I am female; but I only feel comfortable if I live and behave as though male, and until I learned about LGBTQIA+ theory and history sometime in my early twenties, I felt utterly...
Am I broken for not wanting to go back?
Brought together by their work, the staff members of the MOCHA Center are truly emblematic of what grassroots organization and community-building can be.
It took two years and a committee of people to implement a workable solution to an often unrecognized need.
My boyfriend and I have lived together for almost a year now, and let’s just say it’s not going well. It seems like we fight constantly about chores and who does what.
We’re not struggling and even do well financially, but money comes up almost daily, usually in the form of a lecture or berating me.
I hate my friend’s boyfriend.
“No matter who you are or what your personal style is…you will appreciate yourself in a way you never have before.”
In this special edition of Smash Talks x Mettle, Ashera recounts Qween City’s chair dancing class at the Buffalo Burlesque Studio with the Mistress herself, Jamie Doktor.
Abby Spindelman gets us into a flow from her home yoga studio in Allentown.