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I Wasn't Prepared for the Horror Story That Is Online Dating While Black
I try to remind myself that no one ever said online dating would be a wholly pleasant experience. There is an inherent awkwardness that comes with entering the world of swipes and algorithms, and it’s...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: My Women's Rights Class Was Taken Over By a Misogynist
The first day of my women’s human rights class was amazing. It seemed that everyone in the class agreed that women’s rights are important, even if we all had different points of view, different...
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It's Not Really the New Year Without a Juice Cleanse, Right?
Before this cleanse, I had tried a handful of them in the past, but I’m a person who is quite physically active and enjoys chewing my nutrients more than drinking them, and juice fasts and cleanses...
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RECIPE OF THE WEEK: A Warming Beverage to Get Us Through This Arctic Nightmare
Welcome back, my lovelies! Last week, the topic was “elevated takes on childhood favorites” or “fancy stuff, taken down a notch.” I had so much fun reading your comments on this one, especially because...
View ArticleUNPOPULAR OPINION: Porn Is Not Empowering
CONTENT NOTE: This piece contains descriptions of violence and degradation.If anti-sex attitudes were truly the only reason that people oppose pornography, I would be right there with the pro-porn...
View ArticleAudrey Kishline, Founder of Support Group Moderation Management, Commits Suicide
Today, we've got some ups and downs. On the up side, the Golden Globes honored a show where the main character is transgender, and a new ad shows why Tiffany & Co’s ethics are just as fabulous as...
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5 Beauty and Fashion Goals I'm Still Sticking to Two Weeks Into the New Year
New year, new list of expectations for how I'm going to improve myself and my life! (Are you sick of this stuff yet?)Say what you will, but I'm actually feeling the energy of the New Year in the best...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I'm an Ethical Collector of Human Bones and Other Weird Stuff
I invest in human bones, not stellar photography equipment. Sorry not sorry.Remember me? Probably not, because I was that really quiet goth kid in high school. A decade later, I have a master’s degree...
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I've Decided To Jump On The CrossFit Hate Train
It’s taken me a while to formulate an opinion on CrossFit, but I talked it out today, so I think I’m ready to dip my toe into some controversial waters and speak about a fitness...
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I'm A Trans Man Who Stripped Down To Show the Importance of Top Surgery
Elijah RenardI am one part game designer, one part pixel artist and a dash unicorn. However, for the last year, people have thought of me as a young, flamboyant man in his early twenties.While I can't...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Fell Into a Manhole
It was a rainy, dark night in South Florida. That's all you need to know about the weather. My husband and I were going out to dinner with friends to a restaurant that their daughter had a small...
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Duke University Will Be Broadcasting the Muslim Call to Prayer, and People...
Duke has just announced that on Friday afternoons, the Muslim call to prayer — known as the adhan — will be broadcast from the university's chapel in Arabic and then in English, summoning the roughly...
View ArticleDISPATCHES FROM THE PROZAC RABBIT HOLE: Why I Keep Getting the Refills
There are two pills left in the bottle of my three month supply. I sniff the bottle, because I sniff almost anything. I get a buzzy olfactory high easily, like a dog with its head out the window. With...
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WWJD: Jane Helps You Wait Five Long Months Before Taking His Virginity
This is my thinking face. Thanks for all the continuing excellent and thought-provoking and varied advice questions you keep texting me. It's always exciting when I look at my phone and see...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was Sexually Assaulted By My Therapist (Who Turned Out...
Heather Lynette Sinclair.I went into therapy as a 26-year-old mother of two suffering from extreme bouts of depression. My life wasn't the problem. It was my past that haunted me and held me captive,...
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Why Labels For Sexual Identities Are Useful For Everyone
Remember back in 2007, when a woman married the Eiffel Tower? She’s in a relationship with a German tower crane now. There was a documentary that followed her during her commitment ceremony to the good...
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10 Retail Chain Fitting Rooms Rated for Comfort and How Flattering the...
This year for Christmas, I got several gift cards, including one from Macy’s. This made me happy, since it was having a denim sale, and all my jeans decided to fall apart at once, ripping and tearing...
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Jim Beam Kentucky Fire Might Be the Thing to Fill the Fireball-Shaped Hole in...
It’s pretty easy to tell the PR people who have read the site from the ones who have not. I suspect that the person who was seemingly desperate to give Mandy a bottle of Jim Beam Kentucky Fire has not...
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I CHEATED: The Year I Cheated on My Husband With My Ex (My Brutally Honest...
“Congratulations on your engagement,” the text flashed across my phone. It was the first I had heard from him in years, besides the countless scenarios in my head where he’d speak to me and beg me to...
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Working From Home is Making Me a Lazy Asshole
I’ve always struggled with social anxiety. From the first job I had at a museum gift shop when I was a preteen, to my first foray into cubical corporate realness several years ago, few things in life...
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