Writing
Ryan-Ashley primarily writes creative non-fiction and criticism and is currently working on a memoir about family, sex work, and late capitalism. She has published in Icebreakers, X-R-A-Y, IndieWeek, Carolina Quarterly, and others, and has work forthcoming in Rejection Letters. Anderson also self-publishes on her substack, Femme in Theory. Links to select work below.
Nobody’s Daughter
I was almost five years old, it was Christmas day, and I knew something was wrong because I’d gotten everything I’d asked for …
How to Fall in Love When ….
you’re a Twice-Divorced Middle-Aged White Guy and a Queer, Sex Worker Artist and Neither of You Are Lookingfor Anything Serious … (co-written with Kevin Maloney)
Big Feelings About Bold Colors
It all added up to create a cheap-feeling aesthetic that, rather than elevating the posters to art, actually more deeply positions the posters as not art as advertisements as …
LGBTQ writers explore the …
perils of identity in new, locally published anthology Writing the Walls Down …
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