When I was ready to dive deeper, she started pulling away. I barely had the skills to handle it
Alena Papayanis
Alena Papayanis is a later-in-life-lesbian, professor, Tiktok content creator and freelance writer whose work has been published in The Globe and Mail, HuffPost, Chatelaine, Refinery29, Xtra Magazine and FASHION Magazine.
I came out later in life. I’ve never felt more free—nor more alone
Before I could find belonging among fellow queers, I first needed to learn how to belong to myself
The physics of a failed relationship
We were like two subatomic particles moving in space, never really able to be in the same place or time