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Can you be Sexually Gay and Romantically Straight?
Why do we keep expecting limits? There are no limits! Also Appears on elephantjournal.com. A few months back it came out that actor John Travolta may have had sex with men. Whatever the facts of the...
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Where’s My Parachute? – Lessons In Love and Loss (Undercover in the Suburbs...
Where's My Parachute? “Love is like plunging into the darkness toward a place that may exist.” – Marge Piercy It took me a long time to let myself love, especially when there were penises involved....
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Why I’d Love a Four-Person Marriage
Originally Appeared on elephant journal. A few years after finding and marrying each other, Seth and I found our couple-friend soul-mates. Over the few years that followed, in an entirely platonic...
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The Walk of Lame – On Regretting NOT Hooking Up
Right before I met my husband, I flew to another state for a graduate school interview. After we landed, I kept running into the crew from the plane. Turns out they were staying in the same hotel as...
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Help! There’s a 16 Year-Old Lesbian Trapped Inside My Body, and She Wants Out!
Also appeared in elephantjournal – check it out! This post is dedicated to MF. The following is an internal dialogue between me, Lyla (“grown-up,” married, mother of two), and my gay, teenage...
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Love is For Everyone – A Poem in Honor of Marriage Equality
My big, fat, feminist wedding. While I continue to work on my treatise on gay marriage (and why it’s really all about gender, and not gayness or marriage), I thought I would post this poem I wrote for...
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Eat Mangoes Naked – On Becoming Myself… Again
View from Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa In some ways this post is a follow-up to Where’s My Parachute: Lessons in Love and Loss, my mini-autobiography. In college, a female mentor introduced...
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Lyla Cicero… Feminist, Sexpert, Divorcee
All questions, no answers... “Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw I used to think life was about accumulating answers. The more you learn about...
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On Divorcing a Feminist
Trigger Warning for Unadulterated Bitterness On a humid summer day, and old friend and sit in a restaurant balling our eyes out, tears streaming down into little bowls of wasabi, as our sushi sits...
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The Questions I’d Really Like to Ask on First Dates
1)Do you have mommy issues? 2)What’s the worst thing your last partner would say about you? 3)What is your STD status? 4)Are you in therapy? 5)If so, how concerned is your therapist that you are dating...
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