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I Wash My Soap, and Other "Odd" Must-Do Rituals That Balance My Life
I think it stems from having severe acne as a teenager and then into my early 20s. If anything was going to touch my face, it better be "clean." That has always included my soap. I washed my soap after...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Broke My Neck and Bonded with a Prison Pen Pal
In 2001, when I was 19 years old, I broke my neck, and then I broke my life. It’s funny how succinctly those two fell into place. I was a passenger in a car accident where the driver lost control, we...
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In Defense of Keeping Queer "Safe Spaces" Queer
On our wedding day. Image credit: <a href="http://www.cyrience.com/">Cyrience Creative Studios</a>Over the years, my wife and I have lived in a few places known for being particularly...
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5 Ways I’m Fighting Through the Fact That I Hate Cold Winter Weather
The Winter Blues, the January Blahs, whatever you choose to call it, many of us are less than enthused about this particular season, and I am one of them. I grew up in New York, and for as long as I...
View ArticleEver Wanted To Go To Cuba? Starting Today, You Probably Can
It’s Friday and if that means you want to take a weekend jaunt to Cuba, for the first time in 50 years, as an American citizen, you can. Plus, remember way back in the day, when Mark Walhberg was Marky...
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GROSS OUT FRIDAYS: The Vaginal "Cyst" That Nearly Suffocated My Labia
My freshman year of college, a day before my 19th birthday, I woke up with a strange pressure in my... well... in a spot that had me wondering what my ex-boyfriend had *really * been up to all those...
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10 At-Home Bar Accessories for People Who Love Drinking but Think Alcohol...
So I went to Applebee’s last night for happy hour boneless wings, margaritas, and trivia night. One of the trivia questions asked for the proper name of a wine professional.... IDFK? The answer was...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: The Website I Wrote for Was Run by a Sexist Jerk
I've always liked to write. From an early age I was filling pages, usually with stories about me somehow becoming Simba (then marrying myself because that’s how much I loved Simba and also I didn't...
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The NAACP Bombing Proves How Mainstream Media Is Failing You
On the morning of January 7, news junkies like myself woke up to a plethora of shocking and tragic stories, be it the bombing of a NAACP office in Colorado or the massive terrorist attack which claimed...
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Here's How I Decide Whether Or Not to Buy Your Clothes: Tales From a Resale...
Between 2011 and 2012 (for exactly one year) I worked in a resale clothing store. This was a difficult time in my life for a variety of reasons, and as difficult times tend to go, it was also a...
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From Broad City to The Bachelor: 3 Looks Inspired by January TV
I don’t consider myself the biggest fan of TV. Living in L.A. has garnered an interest in the technical aspects of putting together a show, and the art of storytelling through a TV series. But still,...
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All My Friends Got Married, and I Now Don't Know How to Make New Ones
I sit at a picnic table at The Standard Biergarten. Gwen sits to my left. Her body is at a 45-degree angle facing me. I take this as positive nonverbal communication. She tells me she is a lawyer. I...
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6 Beauty Tips That Motivate Me on My Most Lethargic Winter Days
Is it just me, or does it become increasingly difficult to convince yourself to complete mundane activities during these winter months? Like a lot of people with depression or anxiety, I become...
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Come Blow Off Some Steam in This Open Thread Because Stress Causes Migraines,...
This is not what I look like while sick in bed — it's what I look like lying in bed with a lot of makeup on from a photo shoot. If you want to see my sick face, let me know and I will happily share it....
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I Have a Scar on My Face From a Dining Room Table; How (and Why) to Set the...
I have a scar right between my eyes, where I was cracked in the face with the expandable leaf that belonged to our dining room table. My mom was carrying the leaf, and three-year-old me was following...
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I Did a Terrible Thing in High School That I Can't Remember
The point is not what happened, because I don’t actually know what happened. Or rather, I don’t remember what happened, which is the most disconcerting thing of all. All I know, really, is that at some...
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How I Learned to Embrace a Different Life With Help From Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks has been in the news a lot lately. Her beef with Iggy Azalea and the subsequent debate that followed, her response to Kendrick Lamar’s Billboard interview, and her recent brief Twitter...
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9 Stories I Couldn't Get Anyone to Write About This Week, Including What It's...
What could Emily, Eugenia and I be laughing so damn hard about in my office? Maybe wonderful ol' Olivia, who took this, remembers?This week, a bunch of my writers and editors were sick ("as quiet as...
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My Favorite Long-Lasting Makeup, Because Touch-Ups Are Annoying
Listen, we’re all busy. We’re building our lives with our careers and our travels and our talents and our children, our loving and dreaming and breathing and creating. The last thing we need is our...
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Colgate Is Still Selling "Black Person Toothpaste" In Asia and It Needs to Stop
I used to think Black Person Toothpaste was funny. As a kid, I’d giggle when I spotted this particular brand on the shelves of convenience stores in Taiwan. Of course in English it never actually...
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