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When Queer Characters are Evil (and Why that’s Okay)
Is having more morally-questionable queer people in fiction counter-intuitive to our fight against inequality?
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
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January 2024

The Path of Most Resistance
...is the path a masochist learner like me is going to take, obviously
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October 2023

Maybe It's Not Just Luck
It's human being, not doing – unless you're a Filipino gay man with an impostor syndrome
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)

September 2023

Wonderwall
Turning indoor wall climbing into a metaphor because everything is just a metaphor for something
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All Those Damn Doors
Life often feels like a series of doors that become firmly shut behind you as you go forward to open new ones.
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Someone, Please Save the Dates
Dates, weddings, and frustrations that came with being a gay single man in Manila
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April 2023

Talking Myself into Me
Learning a new language made me see the person I've been from the very start.
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Evan Ⓥ (he/him)
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January 2023

On Moroccan Winter Nights, a Traveler (Second in a Series)
You'll never forget your first, or so they say.
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On Moroccan Winter Nights, a Traveler (First in a Series)
For the holidays, we went on a vacation in Morocco — my first time in the country and the African continent.
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August 2022

May 2022

A New Language for the New World
We need new myths to forge towards our uncertain futures, but they need to be founded on established historical truths.
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