The Year of the Theatrical Femme

Our Ultimate Pride Playlist

CultureL30 June 2023pride, queer, songs, music, music industry, pop, popculture, queer pop culture, gay, gay songs, the gay anthem, gay anthem, carly rae jepsen, lady gaga, spotify, list, listicle, playlist Comments

Queering the Flâneur: Constructing Identity Through Thoughtful Wandering

The flâneur has the capacity to be reinvented.

CultureContributor3 September 2021queer, wandering, London, Paris, literature, Flâneur, feminism

How a Podcast Helped Save My Friendship

We eventually found ourselves back in Echo Park—broke, lonely, and gay. As these codependent friendships go, we were destined for an end, or a pause. Night after night of drinking and feeling like losers started to wear on us.

Life, CultureContributor8 June 2021best friend, national best friend day, podcast, queer, LA, Los Angeles, AKBAR, Jason StewartComment

Gas Stations of Greater Appalachia

As I write this, there’s a gas shortage in North Carolina. Maybe you’ve heard about it. A pipeline hack led to panic buying and hoarding. Tonight, someone tweeted that 78% of gas stations in North Carolina are out of gas, the worst of any state right now.

NonfictionEmily Blair18 May 2021gas shortage, appalachia, queer, queer country, Americana

Eloping in the Pandemic

We eloped. The pandemic helped me justify the wedding I wanted.

NonfictionEmily Blair5 December 2020elopement, pandemic wedding, queer wedding, asheville, queerComment

On Moving Back to Appalachia

I’m uncomfortable with how Appalachian identity works in the media and in academia, both because I think it’s a problematic identity that I hold too dearly and because I think I’m faking it.

NonfictionEmily Blair2 October 2020Appalachia, LGBTQ, queer

An Academic Conference Survival Guide: From One Femme Queer to the Next

Here’s how you survive those two to four days at a academic conference, especially as a woman, a femme, or a queer person.

LifeEmily Blair4 March 2020queer, femme, academic, conference, survival guide, AWP, Appalachian

My Ex, His Mother, His Truck, and Her Tree: On Holiday Mourning

I want to believe there's consolation in reminiscence, that mourning can be cleansing when it's set against green and red lights and holiday songs and a sense of impending renewal. But when time never moves forward for us, it can never be properly marked and peacefully released. Instead we are the ones marked. Holidays repeat endlessly.

NonfictionContributor23 December 2019mourning, grief, homelessness, Jackson Mississippi, Christmas, queer, lesbian, widow, ex husband, wreath, opiate addictionComment

Pomegranate

The collection begins now, a digging / the excavation of her pomegranate hips.

PoetryContributor27 September 2019pomegranate, lesbian sex, queer poetry, queer, sex, poetry

The Professor is Out: Are These Slacks Queer?

Queering the classroom can be nothing more or less than an act of existence that does not necessitate a certain mode, reaction, or action toward or against a gender presentation binary, or an understood queer normativity.

NonfictionEmily Blair29 August 2019queer, back to school, queering the classroom, queer fashionComment

We’re Here, We’re Queer, But Can We Pee Here?

After the Queer Big Bang in Appalachia, still we must ask the question: where can we all pee?

Do You Believe in Pride After Pride?

Are you feeling blue now that the end of Pride month is upon us? Well don’t pack up your rainbows just yet! Boshemia’s Staff and contributors got together to discuss the ways we keep the spirit of Pride alive all year long. Here’s some of our thoughts.

LifeBoshemia Magazine30 June 2019pride, pride month, symposium, life, lgbtqia, lgbtq+, queer

How To Be A Good Ally

What actually makes a good ally? At the apex of Pride Month, amidst the Taylor Swift buzz, the (all LGBTQ+) Boshemia team figured it was a good time to consider this question ourselves. Here are our thoughts.

The Taylor Swift Guide to Co-Opting Pride

It’s a fine line to tailor to the gays without coming off as pandering, or a privileged white girl who saw season 6 of RuPauls Drag Race for the first time on a plane. Anyway, here’s the new Taylor Swift song.