The writer's experience in her girlfriend's photography class became a microcosm of how lesbian identity is distorted and eroticized through the male gaze. Her essay examines the tension between visibility and voyeurism, and the cultural forces that turn queer women’s intimacy into something consumable.

When women gather around a shared table, they do more than share food — they build community, confidence, and care in a world that often denies them space to rest and belong. The Belladonna Dinner Club is a testament to that quiet, radical act of connection: breaking bread as a form of resistance, and friendship as a kind of homecoming.

On motherhood, fiction writing, and the quiet rebellion of imperfect balance