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Me holding a Canon Optura MC100 Mini DV camcorder.
Three instant photos of myself holding my hands up on my forehead and creating devil horns with my thumbs.
a scan of an instax mini selfie of me in a window reflection
A photo of a farm at sunset featuring a wooden bench with a beer bottle on it as a focal point
A video of me winding up a Kodak Brownie Fun Saver box 8mm camera in a park
A .5 selfie of me on a sidewalk
A Kermit the frog "Kermit the Frogtographer" puppet sitting on a chair.
A digital self portrait of me in front of an orange shelf with messy, shaken hair
A black and white photo of me looking into a small, gothic mirror on film
Nicole and I as Trixie Mattel and Orville Peck
criterion dvds of the last temptation of christ and jean-luc godard’s king lear
Drag queens Lydia B Kollins, Kori King, and Suzie Toot pose at the end of a number
A black and white selfie of me in a large circular mirror
A photo of Theodore Roosevelt High School at golden hour.
A moody, greenish photo of a Village Discount thrift store.
A black and white photo of Nicole and her mom after a wedding.
A front view of the Olympus Superzoom 330
A still from Drive Back Home featuring Alan Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles chatting in a car
A fire hydrant with a flower graffiti tag.
A shelf at home featuring hand-blown glass and VHS tapes of The Mask and Felix the Cat.
A blue front door of an apartment building.
Von Steuben high school on a sunny day.
A Chicago Cubs themed game of cornhole at a block party.
Cleo the cat looks through a stained glass window.
A self portrait of me on a porch.
A collection of 5 My Chemical Romance themed buttons given to us by our seat neighbors.
Dolphins flipping for joy against a rainbow and hearts in the sky
The poster for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson
A stack of books in a little free library, including Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
The Paprikas Weiss Hungarian Cookbook by Edward Weiss and Ruth Buchan
A presentation at the FTC’s workshop about gender-affirming care. Powerpoint lists a series of “fraudulent language” including: • Gender identity • Wrong puberty • Preferred pronouns • Top & bottom surgery • Sex assigned at birth • Genital reconstruction • Cisgender • Hormone replacement • Non-binary • Chestfeed
12 labubu dolls on a string in the window of a pharmacy
On top, a black refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop 5. On the bottom, a Microsoft Surface Book from 2015 with a myriad of stickers from when I was in college and beyond.
Screenshot of the viral “my weekend as a 28-year-old in Chicago” video
Chris Fleming meme. In the first panel he asks “could you excuse me?” and in the second panel is is standing in the woods and screaming.
A tweet from Kori King advertising Cameos for “KoriBuBu”
Nicole at a Japanese-Korean BBQ spot throwing a peace sign while grilling.
The confused math lady meme. A white blonde woman looks confused while layers of math equations and formulas are juxtaposed on her face.
For example: If your weekly benefit amount (not including dependent allowance) is… $110.00 50% of that amount is… $55.00 If your earnings are… $76.50 The amount that exceeds 50% of your weekly benefit amount is… $21.50 The difference between your weekly benefit amount… $110.00 And the amount of your earnings that exceeds 50% of your weekly benefit amount… $21.50 Gives you a partial benefit amount of… $88.50 Raised to the next highest dollar… $89.00
Screenshot of the books I read in May 2025: Bad Girls - Camila Sosa Villada Subprime Attention Crisis - Tim Huang Scorsese By Ebert - Roger Ebert Play Nice - Jason Schroeder A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar - Harry Nicholas Nickel And Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich One To Watch - Kate Stayman-London Crime And Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky
The poster for Friendship starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.
A 3D puzzle depicting a train station during cherry blossom season in Japan in the middle of our bookshelf.
A hardcover copy of Cher’s memoir on a desk
The show has also fueled discussion around its popularity with different communities. “You see this with Kendall Roy from ‘Succession,’ a little bit with the dudes from ‘Severance,’ all of the dudes from ‘Conclave,’” Mr. Corrall said. “There’s such a fun relationship between young women and young queer people who engage with shows primarily on TikTok and through fan fiction who relate to these middle-aged men and their traumas and back stories in a way that’s like, ‘That’s my child. I will protect them with my life.’” According to Mr. Corrall, this phenomenon can also be deemed the “babygirlification of tortured adult men.”
A fuzzy disposable camera picture of an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. A person is riding a bike on the street in front of it.
A meme template mimicking a Dark Souls game with the words "Diagnosis granted" onscreen
A Nikon N75 35mm film camera with a classic-era Mickey Mouse film strip camera strap.
Favorite first watches in 2024 (in alphabetical order) AUTOMORPHOSIS (Harrod Blank, 2007) BLACKBERRY (Matt Johnson, 2023) GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS (Les Blank, 1980) THE GODS OF TIME SQUARE (Richard Sandler, 1999) THE IRON CLAW (Sean Durkin, 2023) ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: COMPANY (D. A. Pennebaker, 1970) TWISTER (Jan de Bont, 1996)
Favorite 2024 watches (in alphabetical order) ANORA (Sean Baker) CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino) CONCLAVE (Edward Berger) I SAW THE TV GLOW (Jane Schoenbrun) LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Rose Glass) MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola) PROBLEMISTA (Julio Torres) RAP WORLD (Danny Scharar, Conner O'Malley) SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING (Rachel Lambert) THESIS ON A DOMESTICATION (Javier van de Couter) VIỆT AND NAM (Truong Minh Quy) Honorable mentions: BABES (Pamela Adlon), FOUR MOTHERS (Darren Thornton, LISA FRANKENSTEIN (Zelda Williams), QUEER (Luca Guadagnino).
Black Cake - Charmaine Wilkerson The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Do You Remember Being Born? - Sean Michaels Having and Being Had - Eula Biss American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters - John Waters I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai Night Film - Marisha Pessl There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension - Hanif Abdurraqib The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality + Disease Collide - Steven W. Thrasher The Other Olympians - Michael Waters Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus Patricia Wants to Cuddle - Samantha Allen Bunny - Mona Awad All's Well - Mona Awad Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner Intermezzo - Sally Rooney The Rainbow Age of Television - Shayna Maci Warner Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella - Charlie Markbreiter
Tommy’s Tale by Alan Cumming and Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund
The Musix Box Theater marquee showing The Muppet Christmas Carol and Scooby Doo
A still from Conclave. Three catholic cardinals smoke cigarettes against an orange wall.
An egg and cheese bagel sandwich, a cold brew, and the holiday print edition of The Onion
a cheesy french onion soup on a white and blue ceramic plate
A Japanese kei truck parked in a parking lot sandwiched between normal sized cars.
Alternative movie posters for Frank, Bound, Old Boyfriends and Raw
Orla Gartland performs at Sleeping Village in Chicago, with a timed disco ball lighting up to the song
Ticketmaster queue for My Chemical Romance that says there are 58,684 people ahead
Acknowledgments Thank you to Jenni Olson for being my very first interview. Your dedication to kindness and to intergenerational queer strength is an incredible gift and guide. Thank you to my agent, Robert Guinsler, for asking if I wanted to write a book! Thank you to my editors, Chelsea Cutchens and Sarah Robbins, for making sure I wrote a book. Thank you to the critics, advocates, performers, and creators who generously gave me your precious time. Angela Robinson, Rose Troche, Jamie Babbit, Jennifer Beals, Jenni Olson, Ashley Ray-Harris, Princess Weekes, Juan Barquin, Cody Corrall, Stephanie Beatriz, Stephen Tropiano, Melissa King, Lilly Wachowski, Drew Gregory, Tanya Saracho, Jessica Sutton, Sasha Colby, and Alex Schmider, I tried to hide it when I was speaking with you, but it has been the greatest, geekiest privilege to be able to include your words in my work, and your work in my life. Thank you to Steven Capsuto, Matt Baume, Stephen Tropiano, Susan Stryker, Joshua Gamson, and the entirety of Autostraddle and LezWatch. TV for all your work in documenting and thinking critically about queer media. Thank you to Chris Strayer, Josslyn Luckett, and Alice Royer, whose classes sparked the ideas for some of these chapters. Thank you to everyone who helped with the monumental lift of transcribing audio from many hours of interviews: Elise Umetsu, Emma Gibbs, John e. Kilberg, Zoe Ziegfeld, Vigor Mortis, Raf Tawasil, Liana Kindler, and Molly Fusco. Thank you to Luey Jane Mukerjee for your dedication to queer storytellers. Thank you to Alex Schmider for always, always opening doors. nant vou to Donna Deitch for making Desert Hearts.