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An Open Letter to My Aunts: Love
Spencer Moore pens a letter to their aunts about their many loves throughout the years.

Spencer Moore
Sep 10, 20216 min read
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Editors' Note - September 2021
Blossom Mag creators Maddy Sutka and Lola Estok talk about September's theme: love - and all the messy and beautiful things it brings.

blossom mag
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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No Fireworks
Lola Estok writes about her first kiss, expectations, and wanting to live her cinematic dreams.

Lola Estok
Aug 28, 20214 min read
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My Meat; His Beak
Lukas T. Woodyard analyzes the murder of Jun Lin, violence against gay, Asian bodies, and sexual trauma in this experimental piece on firsts

Lukas T. Woodyard
Aug 25, 202111 min read
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Editors' Note - August 2021
Blossom Mag creators Maddy Sutka and Lola Estok talk about August's theme: firsts. And about the fears, anxieties, and excitement it brings.

blossom mag
Aug 1, 20212 min read
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Editors' Note - July 2021
Blossom Mag creators Maddy Sutka and Lola Estok talk about July's theme of identity and what it means to them.

blossom mag
Jul 1, 20212 min read
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Bi Erased
Meredith Waugh talks about bi erasure in this vulnerable article that dismantles the stereotypes and narrative around bisexual people

Meredith Waugh
Jun 30, 202110 min read
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What I Listen to in June
Lukas T. Woodyard writes about their June playlist, trauma, and survival in this cathartic and emotional read.

Lukas T. Woodyard
Jun 23, 20219 min read
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Being Bisexual Bites
The writer talks about coming to terms with her sexuality and the struggles of biphobia and bi-erasure.

Anonymous
Jun 16, 20215 min read
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Asexuality and the Lack of What?
Ellen Gillespie writes about being asexual, struggling to make friends, and trying to find where she fits in within the LGBTQ+ community

Ellen Gillespie
Jun 14, 20219 min read
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An Open Letter to My Aunts: Pride
Spencer Moore writes a letter to their aunts about their unconventional childhood and their dreams to live a more conventional life

Spencer Moore
Jun 11, 20217 min read
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Why I've Never Been to Pride
Maddy Sutka talks about why she hasn't been to pride and her struggles to find identity.

Maddy Sutka
Jun 2, 20215 min read
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Editors' Note - June 2021
Blossom Mag co-editors Maddy Sutka and Lola Estok share their feelings on pride as we head into June.

blossom mag
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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WTF is a Friend?
Christina Lyn Jevicky dives into what makes a good friend in this humorous and reflective retelling of her past and current friendships

Christina Lyn Jevicky
May 25, 20216 min read
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Dearest Creatures
Lukas T. Woodyard writes about their queer experience in love, both romantically and with pets, in this piece inspired by Virginia Woolf

Lukas T. Woodyard
May 19, 20217 min read
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Are Friends Really Benefits?
Elizabeth Pamboukian investigates what makes a "friends with benefits" relationship work through a series of interviews with young adults

Elizabeth Pamboukian
May 17, 202111 min read
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Love at First Affirmation
Philip Larkin wrote about generational trauma in his poem This Be The Verse, claiming that “Man hands on misery to man” (9). After...

Anonymous
May 7, 20215 min read
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Editors' Note - May 2021
Blossom wouldn’t exist without friendship. The magazine started with a simple one-off text to Lola where I said “I wish we had a...

blossom mag
May 1, 20212 min read
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It's Easier Coming Out as a Ghost
Growing up in the modern American South is weird. Every sex talk includes "now it's okay if you like men" and concludes with "God made...

John Godspeed
Apr 14, 20217 min read
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Fanfiction: The Beginner's Guide to Queer Sex
I was fifteen when I had my first official state-approved Sex Education class. Being that I'm from Indiana, this included preaching...

Jessie Ballard
Apr 5, 20215 min read
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