Laura has short black hair and smiles at the camera. She is wearing an off the shoulder top.
Laura Torlaschi
she/her
Laura Torlaschi is a Queens-based essayist and community organizer previously published in The New York Times’ Tiny Love Stories, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, City Limits, and Petit Mort. Drawing on her experience as the queer, disabled daughter of Argentinian immigrants, she explores class, sex work, gender, and disability. In 2024, she was awarded a Periplus Collective fellowship. She is currently in an interdisciplinary bachelor’s program studying the intersections of gender and labor, with a special focus on commodified sexuality.