Sara Youngblood Gregory

I am available for commission, ghostwriting, branded partnerships, and social media collaborations. Contact me for my press kit!

Books

RUN. / Finishing Line press
The Polyamory Work Book / Ulysses Press

Articles

Contributing writer, LGBTQ Equity / Yes! Magazine Portfolio
Contributing staff writer, wellness / popsugar portfolio
What Financial Planning Looks Like for LGBTQ People / The New York Times
MEN ARE IN A LONELINESS EPIDEMIC. SHOULD WOMEN CARE? / yes! magazine
An Anti-Trans Policy Tried to Keep Rock Climbers Out of the Game. Here’s How They Fought Back (and Won) / Cosmo
The Truth About Bias in AI-Powered Dating Technology / Cosmo
The Spectacular Rise of the Misery Lesbian™ / Cosmo
How Queer Media Arrived at a Crossroads / the new republic
This Is Your Gender-Affirming Care Counter programming / Cosmo
Do Pro-Gay Christian Groups Really Belong At Pride? / HUFFPOST
How to date when you’re a woman who doesn’t want children / The Guardian
Right-Wing Takeover of New College Declaws Generations of Trans Activists and Scholars / TransLASH MEDIA
Florida’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill is One Step Closer to Law / TransLASH MEDIA
‘Choke Me Daddy:’ The Dangerous Truth About Breath Play Memes / Refinery29
You Need Women to Survive the Apocalypse / Cosmopolitan
Inside Sawmill, Florida’s Premier Gay Clothing-Optional Campground / vice
This Is What the ‘Golden Globes of Porn’ Looks Like / vice
The Unsettling Rise of the Anti-Pick Me Girl / Jezebel
Erika Lust ON THE RISE OF ONLYFANS AND WHAT QUALIFIES AS “GOOD PORN” / Mic
Are Transgender Women at Risk for Breast Cancer? / hEALTH cENTRAL
How Bad Is It Really to Sleep With a Tampon In? / LIVESTRONG
Where Key Swing State 2022 Midterm Candidates Stand on Abortion / Cosmo
Paid Menstrual Leave Is a Worker’s Rights Issue That Employers Should Guarantee / TEEN VOGUE
Why Deleting Your Period App Won’t Protect Your Privacy in a Post-Roe World / COSMO
Allyson Felix Offers Free Child Care to Athletes at Track Events / POPSUGAR
6 Abortion Advocates To Follow On TikTok / Bustle
HOW POSTERS BIRTHED AN ENTIRE AIDS ACTIVISM MOVEMENT / Mic
We Need Better Same-Sex Awards Show Kisses / Jezebel
Queer TikTok Is Obsessed With Touch Me Nots— And Not In a Good Way / Mic
I Found A Queer Community On The Road / Refinery29
Why Ghosting May Have Been Good for My Mental Health / Byrdie
CAN WE HEAL OUR PANDEMIC TRAUMA WITH KINK? / Mic
This App’s Like A Throwback To Tumblr Porn’s Heyday — Only Better / Bustle
3 Pelvic Floor Health Myths You Shouldn’t Believe / HelloGiggles
For Disabled People, Sex Toys Aren’t Just For Pleasure / Mic
3 Queer People on How Getting Sober Changed Their Lives / Byrdie
Three Great Yoga Apps for People with Limited Mobility / Reviewed
Why Sex Needs to Be About More Than Orgasms / Dame Magazine
Why I’m Not Spending Any More Money on Pain / Byrdie
3 Myths About Being Non-Binary You Shouldn’t Believe / HelloGiggles
How Queer Parents Navigate Fertility / Giddy
Why Double Dating Is My Post-Lockdown Norm / Refinery29
3 Myths About HIV You Shouldn’t Believe / HelloGiggles
How I Navigate Sex and Desire with My Asexual Partner / Mic
Ready for Post-Covid Dating? You’re Not Alone / Byrdie
How I Moved Into An RV And Finally Found My Safe Queer Home / Huffington Post
5 Myths About Kink You Shouldn’t Believe / HelloGiggles
Myths About Lesbian Sex, Debunked / Hellogiggles
PrEP Isn’t Just for Gay Men– Should You Consider It? / Giddy
Myths About Lesbian Sex, Debunked / Hellogiggles
Polyamory Is Messy, Joyful, Not for the Faint of Heart / Salty
As A Disabled Person, I Love Bondage. Here’s Why / Huffington Post
Inventing Adulthood: Four Novels Reveal the Magic of Queer Self-Actualization / Bitch Media
Chronic Pain Made My Sex Life Better, Not Worse / VICE
The Sinister Wisdom Calendar Brims with Lesbian Art / GO Magazine
A Labor Movement Recognized, Felt, and Real: Miami Dade College & the Fight to Win / Activist History Review
Trans Manifesto: Brynn Tannehill  / The Advocate
10 Summer Tracks for Girls Who Want Girls / Autostraddle
How Queer Comics are Confronting Rape Culture / Jezebel  
Las Vegas’ Lesbian Wedding Commercial and ‘The Tolerance Trap’ / The Establishment
Like ‘Dear White People?’ Meet ‘Sincerely, The Black Kids’ / INTO
Raging Against Cultural Amnesia: tatiana de la tierra and Latina Lesbian Herstory / Autostraddle
We Still Need the Sexy, Bilingual Poetry of tatiana de la tierra / Ms Magazine
Celebrating tatiana de la tierra and the Latina Lesbian Zine Culture of the ’90s / BUST
tatiana de la tierra is the Queer, Latina Zinester You Need to Know About / Tagg Magazine
The (Mostly) Queer, Latina Authors You Should Be Reading / Curve
Esto no tiene nombre and conmoción: Latina Lesbian Zine Collectives in Miami / Para las duras / For the Hard Ones by tatiana de la tierra. Print.

Editing

13 Things All Long-Term Couples Should Try In Bed / Bustle
6 Ways Coffee Can Help Your Sex Life / Bustle
7 Ways To Make Doggy Style Even Better / Bustle
Co-editor Trans/Feminism Issue, Sinister Wisdom
Editor of the 2020 Sinister Wisdom Wall Calendar
Editor of the 2019 Sinister Wisdom Wall Calendar
Proofreading Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
Associate Editor Sinister Wisdom Issue 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers

Interviews

What Happens in Sex Therapy – From A Real Sex Therapist / Kinkly
Not Just for Kids: A New Book Addresses the Unbearable Truth of Sexual Assault with Anastasia Higginbotham / Bitch Media
POV: Trans Sex Workers / Kinkly
Step into the World of Maura García / Kinkly
A Necessary Caution: A Conversation with Emily L. Quint Freeman / Adroit Journal
Interview with Poet Christine Larusso / Queen Mob’s Tea House
Talking Queer Visibility, Butchness, and Sinister Wisdom with Writer Carina Julig / BUST
Interview with Sean Dorsey of Fresh Meat Festival / The Rumpus
Interview with Kimberly Dark author of The Daddies / The Rumpus
Queer, Poly, and Platonic: Two Partners Discuss Their Unconventional Love / Vice
The Importance of Literary Executors in Preserving a Writer’s Work / Lambda 

Poetry

Cardinal /  Newfound Press, Nominated best new poets 2022
medusa / dark blue  /  Ghost City Press 
3 poems  /  The Broadkill Review, nominated best of the net 2021 & Pushcart prize
salomé , AZ  & climate death but my blood runs hot / Queen Mob’s Tea House
come & go / Argot Magazine, Butter Press
NORTH FLORIDA CHOKES ME & left-shift / Cream City Review
first first  /  Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 18, Print
climate death but my blood runs hot / Acting Up: Queer in the New Century  / Jacar Press  

Book Reviews

Healing Queer Heartbreak in Amber Smith’s Something Like Gravity / BUST
In We Were Witches, Feminism Triumphs Over Shame / Ms Magazine
Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going by Jessica Jacobs / Lambda 
In Search of Pure Lust by Lise Weil / Lambda 
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Atlas by Suzanne Gardinier / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Long Love by Judith Barrington / Lambda
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Pink Flamingos: 10 Siberian Interviews by Sonja Franeta / Sinister Wisdom, Print
The Immigrant’s Refrigerator by Elena Georgiou / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Riddle by Diane Furtney / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Olympus Nights of the Square by Vanda / Sinister Wisdom, Print
Mosaic of the Dark by Lisa Dordal / Sinister Wisdom, Print

Media + Podcasts

Are Partners Just Need-filling Machines? / The Poly (Pod)Cast
Lets Go There with Shira Lazar and Ryan Mitchell / Channel Q Radio
14 Microaggressions LGBTQ People Deal With All The Time / Huffington Post
12 Things Disabled People Want Their Nondisabled Friends to Know  / Huffington Post
The Broadkill Review Episode 1 / Podcast
Hot Talks: In the Moment of Change with Joan Nestle
Myelin & Melanin Episode 105: Intimacy and Kink / Podcast
Myelin & Melanin Bonus Episode: Sexual Superpower / Podcast
Myelin & Melanin Episode 96: Bondage and Liberation / Podcast
Changing the Landscape of What it Means to Be a Lesbian  / Huffington Post

Awards

2023 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists / NLGJA
2022 Best New Poets Nomination / Newfound Press
2021 Pushcart Nomination / “vertigo”
2021 Nominated Best of the Net / “you say my name”
2020 Semi-Finalist  / Charlotte Mew Contest judged by Vi Khi Nao / Headmistress Press / chapbook contest

Readings + Panels

Split this Rock Panel on tatiana de la tierra and Gloria Anzaldúa / 2018
Hot Talks: Lesbians and Queers in Blackness with Shakira Refos and Cheryl Clarke (facilitator)
The Collectables Series / Head Mistress Press
Lesbian Pulp Fiction Launch / Veronica Debonair