Over the past three years, in response a series of life-changing events, my work has shifted from journalistic and arts writing to creative nonfiction. This shift resulted in the book manuscript, “How To Feel Yourself Up: A Meditation on Identity, Empathy, the Faggot Body, and the Wonder of Survival,” a hybrid of cultural critique, social activism, and lyrical memoir. So far, I have published three adaptations of “How To Feel Yourself Up” chapters:
