Emily Austin

Before I even knew the word ‘gay,’ I knew I was gay.

I guess this is why Catholics teach that suicide is a sin. They were running out of priests.

y mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby. Every woman in my family before me lived to have a baby—just so that baby could grow up to have another baby. If I don’t have a baby, then all of those women reproduced just so that I could exist. I am the final product. I am the final baby.