Anne Helen Petersen recently wrote about divesting from socials too & I just kept thinking that I have a much smaller audience & idk how I would be able to promote my work & grow my readership without it. Any other independent journos asking similar questions?

Just a reminder: I’m taking your health insure horror stories for Discourse Blog. Please email me (you’ll remain anonymous!):

sam at discourseblog.com

Today is my birthday! This year was pretty challenging. I wrote about the top ten takeaways I learned from my experiences in 2024. Read about my personal life in my newsletter lol:

In my latest newsletter, I share a link roundup with stories about the importance of queer sex in climate fiction, looking to the past for examples of community self-defense, trans mutual aid, and more. Subscribe now and get my birthday essay in your inbox next week. 💌

I can’t quite pinpoint it yet but I always feel ~weird~ after visiting home. The RGV will always be an integral part of who I am but I don’t feel 100 percent myself here. Gotta heal that or maybe that’s fine! Idk! At least I have these HEB treasures to take back to New York. 🥰

Happy to be here! Let me introduce myself: I'm a Brooklyn-based journalist and audio producer. I've covered LGBTQ+ issues, Latine culture, reproductive health, and the climate crises for various pubs and podcasts. My latest project is working on my newsletter queerfutures.news. 🌈 💌