I write fiction (novels, short stories, and podcast scripts), creative non-fiction, essays, and articles centering on feminism, queer identities, pop culture, and literature. My writing has appeared in several publications, including The Independent, Buzzfeed Reader, StarTrek.com, Xtra Magazine, Bella Media Channel, Vice, Electric Literature, them.us, Upworthy, The Muse, Decoded Pride, and Class Lives: Stories from Across the Economic Divide among others.

I’m also the managing editor for Bella Media Channel, a publication celebrating positive queer representation, and co-host of Bitches on Comics, a podcast about feminism, queerness, and comic books, and a staff writer with SYFY WIRE’s feminist vertical, FANGRRLS. I’m a member of GALECA: the society of LGBTQ entertainment critics. I’m feisty, I’m sometimes angry, I’m sometimes funny, but I’m always bringing realness.

Below is a selection of some of my favorite pieces grouped by loose categories. If you’d like to see all of my work, check out my nifty portfolio at:  sefleenor.contently.com

Fiction

• “The Incident at Mr. Hungry’s,” Decoded Pride Anthology 2020
• “Eternal Chains in Deepest Darkness,” In The Biblical Sense (self-published)

Personal Essay

• Queer folks from small towns know exactly why Schitt’s Creek won big at the Emmy’s, The Independent
• Coming out as nonbinary changed my sex life for the better, Buzzfeed Reader
• Frog and Toad are queer relationship goals, Electric Literature
• My first pap smear as an openly nonbinary person was wildly disorienting, Rewire News
• Captain Marvel, queerness, and the search for identity, SYFY WIRE
• Imagine Me and You gave us a queer rom-com before we were ready–and right when I needed it, Bella Media Channel
• How Steven Universe taught me to love my complicated gender identity, SYFY WIRE
• “Vacuum Cleaner Truth” from the anthology: Class Lives: Stories from Across the Economic Divide

Gender+Sexuality

• JK Rowling’s new book and the sad history of trans women as villains, The Independent
• Seven of Nine was always queer, StarTrek.com
• The persistence of fat-shaming in queer TV, Xtra Magazine
• Practical advice for transgender and nonbinary folks navigating the job search, The Muse
• Job Searching While LGBTQ: How to Find a Truly Inclusive Place to Work, The Muse
• How a T. rex Named SUE Became a Nonbinary Icon, them.us
• How Bartenders Are Learning to Stop Sexual Assault on the Job, Vice Broadly

Entertainment (TV and film)

• Batwoman is here, queer, and bringing important gender representation to the Arrowverse, Bella Media Channel
• The Magicians’ Season 4 finale is a master class is how not to treat queer characters, Pajiba
• The Gender Binary is Limiting Our Imaginations, SYFY WIRE
• What’s with All The Fridging Lately? SYFY WIRE
• Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time Gets Adoption (and It’s Refreshing),SYFY WIRE

Comic Books+Literature

• Indigenous stories, powerful women, and the rise of Rebecca Roanhorse, SYFY WIRE
• A starter kit to help you pack for the apocalypse, SYFY WIRE
• Swamp Thing, queerness, and loving the monster, SYFY WIRE
• John Constantine’s Long Journey to Being Out, SYFY WIRE
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels that Take Us Beyond the Gender Binary, Electric Literature
• The History of Deadpool’s Pansexuality, SYFY WIRE