Culture & Entertainment

  • Multiple Truths: A Conversation with Chasing Chasing Amy Filmmaker Sav Rodgers

    I interviewed filmmaker Sav Rodgers about his documentary Chasing Chasing Amy (2023), which explores the impact of Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy (1997) on the LGBTQ+ community, for Broad Street Review.

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  • ‘BoJack Horseman’ Helped Me Grapple with the Death of an Abusive Parent

    I wrote a personal essay with cultural commentary about complicated grief in Season 5 of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman for Vice.

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  • From "It Girl" to Punchline: Lindsay Lohan Deserves a Cultural Reckoning, Too

    I wrote cultural commentary about the recent “Lohanaissance,” or the revived popularity of Lindsay Lohan films, for my Substack, Adryan Online.

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  • Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar

    I profiled Karl Marx for Teen Vogue. No matter how you feel about him, this article continues to garner millions of views on the website and earns me media attention even five years later.

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  • Bend the Binary with Dorian Electra

    I interviewed nonbinary hyperpop musician Dorian Electra about their debut album, Flamboyant, for TIDAL.

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  • Growing Up and Role-Playing on Xanga

    I coined a personal essay about growing up in a niche high school emo roleplaying community on the now-defunct blogging platform, Xanga, in the mid-00s for Vice.

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  • "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" Star Lachlan Watson on Non-Binary Identity and Telling a Bit of Their Own Story

    I interviewed and profiled nonbinary actor Lachlan Watson about their role as Susie Putnam in Season 1 of Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” series for Teen Vogue’s Culture vertical.

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Harm Reduction, Drugs & Policing

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    How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People

    I investigated how the criminalization of testosterone as a controlled substance in the U.S. affects those on gender affirming hormone therapy in a longform feature for Filter mag.

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  • A flag with rainbow-colored stripes and marijuana leaf patterns waves in the wind against a cloudy sky. The flag combines LGBTQ+ pride colors with cannabis imagery, symbolizing the intersection of queer identity and marijuana advocacy.

    Black and Brown Teens Are Still More Likely to Be Punished for Smoking Weed

    I reported on the relationship between youth cannabis criminalization and the school-to-prison pipeline in U.S. states with adult recreational marijuana legalization for Teen Vogue.

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    Harm Reduction Thinking Can Transform the Way We See Drug Use and Treatment

    I interviewed Dr. Sheila Vakharia, a national drug policy and harm reduction expert, about her book The Harm Reduction Gap for TruthOut.

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  • Federal Government Uses ‘Crack House’ Statute in Attack on Overdose Prevention Sites

    I reported on the federal government’s resistance to the then-proposed overdose prevention site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Rewire News.

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  • 5 Transgender Women Who Have Fought Their Prisons From Behind Bars

    I highlighted the legal triumphs of five different incarcerated transgender women in the United States—including Jessica Hicklin, Strawberry Hampton, Ashley Diamond, CeCe McDonald, and Jessica Sunderland— for them.

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  • Trans Behind Bars: Homophobia Persists At Shakopee Prison After End To No-Touch Policy

    In correspondence with an incarcerated transgender man named Joe Vanderford, I reported on how Shakopee, a Minnesota state prison, remained deeply antagonistic towards LGBTQ+ people behind bars despite lifting homophobic no-touch policies for Shadowproof’s Trans Behind Bars column.

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Health & Wellness

  • Everything You Need to Know About Getting Top Surgery

    I authored a comprehensive guide to getting gender-affirming top surgery for SELF.

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  • How Trauma Impacts Your Body

    I explored how trauma physically manifests in the body—shaping everything from our nervous system to our overall health—in a reported piece for Teen Vogue.

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  • Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout Reflects Deprioritization of Sex Workers

    I reported on the impact of monkeypox on street-based sex workers and the lack of adequate vaccine rollout access available to them for Filter Mag.

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  • Narcolepsy Is Nothing Like What You See in the Movies

    I wrote a reported personal essay about narcolepsy and media representation for Mic.

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  • Treating Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) With Medical Cannabis

    I reported on how medical cannabis can be used to treat complex PTSD, which accounts for developmental childhood trauma, challenging the dominant media narrative that veterans are the only trauma survivors that can benefit from medical marijuana, for High Times.

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