We love Virgo placements for their eye for detail, limitless resource of knowledge, analytical resourcefulness, and commitment to care for those they love and the world they inhabit • Exclusive Art ℅ Annika Bjerke
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Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Having a Roaring Leo Season
We have a lot to learn from Leo placements with their radiant charisma, creative flair, knowledge of themselves, and courage in their authenticity • Exclusive illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Willow Rosenberg’s Coming Out Story Still Makes My Lesbian Heart Soar
At age 14 — a portrait of a young teenager who still had several years before she would call herself a lesbian — I sat down with my older sister to dive into seven long seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Getting Out of Your Shell This Cancer Season
We love Cancers for their emotionally intuitive, nurturing ways, their romantic sentimentality, and their embodiment of sensitivity as a strength • Exclusive Illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Owning Your Duality this Gemini Season
More than any other sign, Gemini is playful. They possess a childlike ability to explore for exploration’s sake, without tying themselves down by taking anything too seriously. This is their superpower • Exclusive illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
For Your Reflection and a Playlist: Why You So Obsessed with Me?
When one hears the term “obsession,” they usually connote it with the negative — a dictionary calls this thinking “intrusive,” and Mariah Carey sings about a toxic ex in her song that inspired our title . . .
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Taking the Bull by the Horns this Taurus Season
As the first Earth sign of the new astrological year, Taurus urges us to redefine our relationship with the tangible world • Exclusive illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Why You So Obsessed with Me: Transporting Feelings Again (and Again) Through Film
It’s officially day 24 of quarantine (or whatever day it is, now that you’re reading this), and I plan on watching Portrait of a Lady on Fire later this week — for the sixth time • Film Still ℅ “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
Why You So Obsessed with Me: Teenagehood in Television
If we are constantly striving for ways to maintain our youth, and by extension, our relevance, why is it that the representation of what it is to be a teenager is so dark? • Photo of the Euphoria cast ℅ People Magazine
Camp Thirlby's Guide to Ram Onward this Aries Season
The cardinal fire sign, Aries possess the ultimate starting energy and lead us into the unknown with unmatched bravery and optimism for the future to come • Exclusive Illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
For Your Reflection & A Playlist: Heard It in a Past Life
Our writers continue to share just how they hold their pasts close to their heart, whether through a certain song (featured in our collaborative playlist, featured at the bottom of this piece), a past memory, or simply a way of being
Camp Thirlby's Guide to Navigate the Depths this Pisces Season
This season means feelings, nostalgia, and daydreams, and it means it now • Illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Hulu’s High Fidelity Brings a Refreshing, Black and Bisexual Take on The 2000 Classic
A show that weaves systematic issues through universal experiences of love, loss, and an excellent soundtrack • Photo ℅ Hulu
Caroline Calloway: a Cautionary Tale in Self-awareness
She is unapologetically attention-seeking, and extremely self-involved, but deeply and almost shockingly lacking in self-awareness • Photo collage ℅ Buzzfeed
Heard It in a Past Life: A Queer Complication of Time
When I see my past selves, I simultaneously miss and reject them. I struggle with seeing myself in several dimensions. I am stuck only seeing the “before” and “after,” the “repressed” and “thriving” • Art ℅ Studio Olafur Eliasson
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to Go with the Flow this Aquarius Season
Aquarians are visionaries, able to envision a better future that universally allows for the freedom they hold dear. Here’s how to embody that flow this season • Exclusive illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke
Why Are Lesbians So Obsessed with Harry Styles?
So many lesbians know his eras like we know our own: times of gothness, of short hair or long hair, of matte foundation and daily winged eyeliner • Photo ℅ Helene Marie Pambrun
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Balances the Joy and Anger of Womanhood
“I think Little Women is always a secretly subversive story” • Film Still ℅ Sony Pictures
Here’s to a New Decade with Camp Thirlby
At the end of the day, Camp Thirlby is here and continues to thrive because of you and your stories • Art ℅ Maria Ramos
Camp Thirlby’s Guide to be the GOAT This Capricorn Season
We all have our own mountains to climb. Here’s our guide to be the GOAT this Capricorn season • Exclusive Illustration ℅ Annika Bjerke