Michele has a over decade’s worth of writing experience, and is currently an Editorial Coordinator/Writer for GeeksOUT. They have written for GeeksOUT, Catapult, Bitch Media, Electric Lit, Shondaland, Salon, The Mary Sue, ComicsVerse, Lambda Literary, and more.
TheBody
- How Coming Out as Asexual Made Me a More Joyful, Autonomous Person – August 10, 2023
Tor
- Looking Back on The Owl House – May 11, 2023
- The Allure of the Beast: Examining the “Monster Husband” Story – June 13, 2023
Collider
- ‘The Untamed’ Builds a Queer Relationship Despite Chinese Censorship – March 6, 2023
- ’The Little Mermaid’s Queer Origins Made It Diverse From the Start – May 2, 2023
- ‘The Good Doctor’s Controversies Remind Us We Need Better Representation – May 29, 2023
- Get Your Sapphic Drama Fix With This Chinese Series – June 10, 2023
- One of the Best Queer Historical Dramas Isn’t Explicitly Queer – June 10, 2023
- This Enemies-to-Lovers Queer K-Drama Is Your New Obsession – June 11, 2023
- This Epic C-Drama Series About Star-Crossed Lovers Is Worth the Binge – June 13, 2023
- This Cameo Makes ‘Human Resources’ Final Season Better – June 14, 2023
- This Thai Drama Is Full of Wholesome Sapphic Representation – June 15, 2023
- This Queer Japanese Drama Takes a Supernatural Twist – June 22, 2023
- Love ‘Heartstopper’? Check Out This Sweet Teen Romance Series – July 6, 2023
- This Opposites-Attract Romance Series Should Be Your Next Netflix Binge – July 8, 2023
Vulture
- 11 Queer Animated Kids’ Shows to Stream Right Now – March 29, 2022
- 11 Books to Read If You’re Yearning for More Heartstopper – June 14, 2022
Giddy
- How Asexual People Can Come To Doctors – January 28, 2022
Buzzfeed
- 17 Books That Tackle Aromantic And Asexual Validation – January 22, 2022
- 15 Books With Noteworthy Disabled Leads – February 7, 2022
- 15 Amazing And Powerful LGBTQ+ Memoirs – February 21, 2022
Kveller
- Finally, a Queer Jewish Character on an Animated Kids Show – March 7, 2022
- This Netflix Series Is the First Animated Show With a Jewish Trans Lead – June 22, 2022
- ‘Dead End: Paranormal Park’ Star Zach Barack Brings Authenticity to a Jewish Trans Character – August 18, 2022
Geeks Out
- Interview with Ryka Aoki – October 20, 2021
- Interview with Aiden Thomas – April 24, 2021
- Interview with Xiran Jay Zhao – May 7, 2022
- Interview with Laura Gao – May 11, 2022
- Interview with Trung Le Nguyen – February 2, 2022
- Interview with Kylie Lee Baker – October 7, 2022
- Interview with Julian Winters – June 24, 2022
- Interview with Darcie Little Badger – April 24, 2022
Catapult
- The Next Stop Is: Brighton Beach – August 12, 2021
- Confessions of a Little Mermaid – October 13, 2021
- This Cartoon Will Help You Rethink Your Definition of Intimacy – August 18, 2022
Electric Lit
- Queer and Jewish Identity Are the Heart of “Where the Wild Things Are” – November 16, 2021
- It’s Time To Reinvent the Trope of the Monster Husband – July 25, 2022
The Forward
- On dissonance: watching the war as a Ukrainian-American Jew – March 8, 2022
Shondaland
- Watching From the Other Side: A Ukrainian American Perspective on the Invasion of Ukraine – March 18, 2022
Salon
- What’s so “unsexy” about asexuality? – January 17, 2021
Hey Alma
- Notes from an Asexual Jew – November 23, 2020
- Connecting to My Ukrainian-Jewish Grandmother Through Klezmer Music – March 4, 2021
- I’m a Bisexual Jew. Society Thinks I’m Greedy — Twice – June 4, 2021
- Could the Golem Be the Ultimate Jewish Queer Symbol? – June 21, 2021
- Millennial Jews Saw Ourselves in Tommy Pickles – July 15, 2021
- 8 Jewish Fantasy Books for A Perfect Escape – November 18, 2021
- The Hanukkah Episode of ‘The Nanny’ Is Full of Jewish Pride – November 26, 2021
- My Jewish Family Always Had a Christmas Tree — But Not for Christmas – December 16, 2021
- I’m a Ukrainian Jewish American Caught Between Two Worlds – February 28, 2022
- What the Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Meant to My Grandmother – June 17, 2022
- Why Don’t More Non-Jews Stand Up Against Antisemitism? – August 16, 2022
- This YA Novel Has the Positive Orthodox Jewish Representation We’ve Been Craving – October 27, 2022
- Hanukkah Is a Complicated Reminder of Queer Jewish Visibility – December 14, 2022
- ‘Saving Hope’ Gave a Jewish Lesbian a Happy Ending – May 9, 2023
- The Little Known Queer Jewish Genius Behind ‘The Little Mermaid’ – June 8, 2023
- 8 Books About Golems for Jewish Folklore Lovers – August 28, 2023
- Baba Yaga Is My Other Slavic Jewish Grandmother – November 27, 2023
Anime Feminist
- Yuri!!! On ICE and the revolutionary portrayal of queer Slavic representation – March 12, 2021
- Writer Budjette Tan discusses Filipino folklore and the TRESE anime’s international reach – November 12, 2021
- Mirror, Mirror: Ouran High School Host Club and reflections of twin identity – March 2, 2022
- Queerplatonic relationships and found family in Buddy Daddies – August 23, 2023
Women Write About Comics
- REVIEW: Allergic: A Graphic Novel Is a Balm – July 6, 2021
We Need Diverse Books
- Q&A With Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, Sword Stone Table – July 14, 2021
- Q&A With Leo Baker, Skate for Your Life – July 22, 2021
- Q&A With Aracelis Girmay and Ariana Fields, What Do You Know? – July 29, 2021
- Q&A With Karen Yin, Whole Whale – July 30, 2021
- Q&A With Sonia Hartl, The Lost Girls – September 14, 2021
- Q&A With Terry and Eric Fan, It Fell from the Sky – September 28, 2021
- Q&A With Katherine Locke & Nicole Melleby, This Is Our Rainbow – October 18, 2021
- Q&A With Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Gitty and Kvetch – October 21, 2021
- Q&A With Niki Smith, The Golden Hour – October 25, 2021
- Q&A With London Shah, Journey to the Heart of the Abyss – November 15, 2021
- Q&A With De Nichols, Art of Protest – November 19, 2021
- Q&A With Kelly McWilliams, Mirror Girls – February 9, 2022
- Q&A With Crystal Maldonado, No Filter and Other Lies – February 14, 2022
- Q&A With Ethan M. Aldridge, The Legend of Brightblade – February 28, 2022
- Q&A With Laekan Zea Kemp, Heartbreak Symphony – April 5, 2022
- Q&A With Julie Jarema and Helen H. Wu, Tofu Takes Time – April 19, 2022
- Q&A With Valerie Bolling, Together We Ride – April 26, 2022
- Q&A With Kathryn Ormsbee & Molly Brooks, Growing Pangs – May 9, 2022
- Walter Honoree Malinda Lo on Last Night at the Telegraph Club – May 30, 2022
- Q&A With H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper – May 31, 2022
- Q&A With Adriana Hernández Bergstrom, Abuelita and I Make Flan – August 9, 2022
The Mary Sue
- How Mainstream Media Has Left the Asexual Members of the LGBTQIA+ Community Behind – August 5, 2018
- Why The CW’s Batwoman Casting Raised Concerns About Jewish Representation – May 2, 2019
- Ace Books: 8 Reading Recommendations With Canon Asexual Representation – May 16, 2019
- 12 LGBTQ+ Webcomics Recommendations You Should Be Reading Right Now – May 20, 2019
- 8 Young, New Heroes the Marvel Cinematic Universe Should Focus on Next – October 31, 2019
- Asexual Anime Headcanon: Five Characters Who Could Be on the Asexual Spectrum – January 30, 2020
- Steven Universe, She-Ra, & Voltron: LGBTQIA+ Successes, Failures, and Hopes for the Future in Children’s Animation – February 7, 2020
- On the Need of Sober Queer Spaces, and Safer Alternatives to Traditional Queer Venues – February 13, 2020
- Disney+’s Hawkeye Needs Deaf Representation – March 23, 2020
- Will The Owl House Finally Present Disney’s First Confirmed LGBTQ+ Protagonist? – August 5, 2020
- How Musical The Prom, The Owl House, and She-Ra Are Reinventing an Age-Old Heterosexual Tradition – September 4, 2020
- People Claiming The Owl House & LGBTQ+ Characters Are Inappropriate for Kids’ Shows Are Just Homophobic – September 28, 2020
Lambda Literary
- Queer Superheroes, Diverse YA, and Other LGBTQ+ News – April 8, 2017
- Queer Graphic Novels, Gay Men’s Chorus, and Other LGBT News – April 25, 2017
- The ‘American Gods’ Adaptation, Dorothy Allison Interviewed, and Other LGBTQ News – May 20, 2017
- ‘The Inexplicable Logic of My Life’ by Benjamin Alire Sáenz – April 11, 2017
- ‘Ten Things I Can See From Here’ by Carrie Mac – May 2, 2017
- ‘Queens of Geek’ by Jen Wilde – May 10, 2017
- ‘Meg and Linus’ by Hanna Nowinski – June 20, 2017
- ‘Noteworthy’ by Riley Redgate – July 27, 2017
- ‘They Both Die at the End’ by Adam Silvera – September 11, 2017
- ‘Sovereign’ by April Daniels – October 3, 2017
- ‘Little & Lion’ by Brandy Colbert – October 12, 2017
- ‘Mask of Shadows’ by Linsey Miller – October 24, 2017
- ‘We Now Return to Regular Life’ by Martin Wilson – November 29, 2017
- ‘Let’s Talk About Love’ by Claire Kann – January 14, 2018
- ‘Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World’ by Ashley Herring Blake – April 25, 2018
- ‘Someday’ by David Levithan – November 1, 2018
- Dear Twin by Addie Tsai – January 22, 2020