Dog-Fearing Man • 13th March 2024

Drive-Away Dolls (2024) Review

I honestly can’t recall how I first learned of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian comedy road movie Drive-Away Dolls; it was either in previews for something else I saw in theaters, or from Twitter fanfare after the trailer dropped. I just know that I made sure to pencil in a viewing on my first free afternoon at my local Regal Cinemas- and I am so glad that I did. This movie hit the same spot that Bottoms first struck a few m

Dog-Fearing Man • 21st February 2024

TikTok Makes Me Feel Less Alone

I have a bad habit of doomscrolling on my phone or laptop anytime I feel emotionally dysregulated, which has been a lot lately. I tend to flip between TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit as my drugs of choice. My algorithm has curated a unique pseudo-community for me to browse when I feel sad about not having a genuine community of my own. The people on my feed are like me: young, queer, politically left-leaning, and deeply angry with the current state of the world. Like millions of others, the people

Dog-Fearing Man • 22nd January 2024

I Finally Caved in to the Pressure and Watched Saltburn

I’d considered seeing Emerald Fennell’s sophomore psychological thriller film Saltburn when it was out in theaters for a few reasons. The first one being that I adore Jacob Elordi as an actor but I have tired of seeing him pla

Dog-Fearing Man • 16th December 2023

Please Wear a Mask

These days, I rarely go out in public besides going to the gym or buying groceries, and when I do venture out into these spaces, I am almost always the only person I see wearing a face mask. I wear a surgical mask every time I leave the house (and the mask is always black, because it goes with all my outfits). Even when I went to my nearest Kaiser Permanente facility to pick up my medications, the majority of patients around me were bare-faced, and in some harrowing instances, the medical profes

Dog-Fearing Man • 21st November 2023

I'm Worried About Gypsy Rose Blanchard, But Not For the Reason You Might Think

A victim of Munchausen's by proxy escaped abuse through violence and faced the consequences. Some of the sympathy for her, though, may soon prove to be misguided.

The Ana • 2nd October 2023

Daughter

My poem "Daughter," which is about my complicated relationship with the concepts of motherhood and womanhood, was published in the thirteenth issue of The Ana.

Compass Rose • 1st October 2023

Infrared

My poem "Infrared," which is about vulnerability in a romantic relationship, was published in the third issue of Compass Rose Literary Journal.

Dog-Fearing Man • 16th September 2023

I Want to See Terrible Tenderqueers on My TV

The characters we see in contemporary fiction are often simply amalgamations of real people the writer has personally known- with names and details changed, of course. I am egregiously guilty of doing this in my own writing, but

Dog-Fearing Man • 20th August 2023

How SpongeBob SquarePants Became Essential to Meme Culture

I’d like to start this piece by stating for the record that the development of digital memes as its own functional language is not a subject I’m qualified to opine about. While the diploma that hangs on my wall states that Grace F. McGuire has earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (with honors, thank you very much), I am not an expert in linguistics and certainly not an expert i

Dog-Fearing Man • 2nd July 2023

The Toxic Relationship Between Power and Strength in Heathers

The 1989 black comedy Heathers saturates the high school teen flick genre with sardonic themes of psychosocial macabre. Despite being a commercial flop at its release, the movie gained a cult following in the decades afterwards and remains beloved for depicting the turmoil of adolescence with piercing wit and humorous aplomb. It lobs commentary upon the typical high school movie themes: identity, relationships, hi

San Francisco State University • 21st May 2021

Fictional Press Kit

This is a project I submitted for my senior technical writing class. It is a press kit for a fake novel I created. This document was made in Canva and the publishing company logo was made by me.

San Francisco State University • 19th May 2021

Identity, Hierarchy, and Solidarity in Angels in America

This is my senior thesis essay, written for my 600-level English literature and Queer Studies class, "Queers in Crisis." I examine the relationship between two central characters in Tony Kushner's play and associate it with representations of citizenship and disease in the narrative.