Eva PhillipsFeb 22, 20196 minA Reboot By Any Other NameIn this time of perpetual disarray and imminent cataclysm, news of any variety has a tendency to inundate me in a Scanners-esque, brutali...
Eva PhillipsJan 25, 201910 minIs There Room at the Table for Queer Women in The Rupaul's Drag Race Work Room?When I was deeply immersed in some Marie Kondo therapy the other night—you know, where you touch yourself to see how much joy you can spa...
Eva PhillipsJan 9, 20198 minRent: A Time to Kill Your Darling, DarlingThere is a disturbing amount I can recall with impeccable and alarming exactness from the day I took my SATs (and I only took them once, ...
Eva PhillipsDec 26, 201813 minA Christmas CarolThe holidays are an especially sensitive and perhaps even fractious time for everyone. Staunchly anti-holiday folks find themselves relen...
Eva PhillipsDec 6, 20189 minPitching a Tent, If Ya Catch My Drift: How "But I'm a Cheerleader" Taught me QueernessAs a child and (more embarrassingly) as a teenager, I harbored a plethora of haphazardly constructed plans and lavish fantasies that cons...
Eva PhillipsNov 28, 201814 minGays of Our Lives: My Mother's Queer TVI have a certain unsolicited, unwarranted and ultimately unwanted pity for this youngest generation of saplings coming of age in the now ...
Eva PhillipsNov 7, 20189 minBoys Don't Cry Unless Hillary Swank Makes ThemThe summer of 2004 was a uniquely cataclsysmic time. Tim McGraw wanted us to live like we were dying, which seemed like a particularly gl...
Eva PhillipsNov 1, 20188 minYou're Gonna Die with Seven Gays??? The Horrors of Young Queerness.There are some facets of my personality and my desires that if I invest too much energy in pondering why they exist, my psyche begins to ...
Eva PhillipsOct 16, 20187 minRyder on the Gay Storm: How Girl, Interrupted Made You GayThere are some very vivid sensorial associations I have with being a child in the 90s. The jarring slap of wallet chains against Paco jea...
Eva PhillipsSep 20, 201810 minThree Fundamental Truths With the Exact Same Rhyme (Missy, Aaliyah, Amy and the Big Gay Vibe)The American High School Pep Rally is an atavistic site in working memory. Barbarism masked as “dance” routines to celebrate the 80th-in-...
Eva PhillipsAug 23, 201812 minBenson's Bangs, Stabler's White Male Rage and Other SVU Especially Heinous Offenses Okay, look. I have some business to address before I can do due diligence to the Mariska Hargitay elephant in the room. Because I will ge...
Eva PhillipsAug 9, 20188 minWho Lives, Who Cries, Who Tells Your Queer Story There were striking similarities between the box that the collected seasons of Queer as Folk were packaged in and myself. It was awkwardl...