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Is the Chicago PD Really Torturing Civilians in a Black Ops Facility?
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/90899524@N00/5336381686">Remove</a>/<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons</a>An exposé in The Guardian...
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I Don't Know What Happens When We Die But I Hope It's Ok
This is not the article I planned to write for this Saturday morning, this last day of February in 2015, a year that I could not even imagine when I was a child, watching original series Star Trek...
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Someone Tell Me That I’ll Live: On Murder, Media, and Being a Trans Woman in...
Nobody notices when we leave. I mean, the moment when we really choose to go. At best, you might feel a whisper, or the wave of a whisper, ululating down [. . .] I was here for a moment. And then I was...
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I Love That Kimber/Stormer Is Canon! But Did You Have To Erase The Bisexuals...
Here's a not so secret fact about me: I am, and have always been, a huge Jem and the Holograms fan. I was just the right age in the 80s when the show premiered, I was already big into Barbie, and I...
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Six Stories I Couldn't Get Anyone to Write About This Week, Including...
I wasn't lying in Open Thread about my blood sugar being stable, but that doesn't mean I don't still eat candy.As I mentioned in Open Thread, most of our staff at xoJane has been MIA this week, staving...
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I Tested L'Oreal's New 24-Hour Foundation and Setting Spray While Bartending...
I don’t often wear foundation because most of the time, I find it too temperamental and I just don't have the patience. If I’m going to put something on my face, I don’t want to have to worry about it...
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Self Care for Poor Folks: How to Help Others
Hey, y’all, welcome back. I hope everyone is doing well. This week I want to talk about ways to give back when you’re not in the position to support things financially.I have always found it extremely...
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If You've Ever Been A Pissed Off Woman, You Probably Need Bitch Planet In...
"No, really," I told my husband, "it's awesome. It's set in a women's prison."Ed gave me the dubious look that he often gives me when I get really excited about something that he suspects is going to...
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I Live In The 2nd Coldest City On Earth; Here's How I Ride Out Winters In Style
This is the part of winter where for me everything stops being fun. My brain forgets that warm sun on bare skin is a possibility in life, pictures of grass and trees are legitimately, unnervingly...
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Let's Talk House Of Cards, Season 3: The Spoiler Thread
Last year I lamented the problems associated with the dumping of entire seasons on streaming media, chief amongst them the lack of a common grace period for spoilers. This year, I lamented that House...
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I'm Afraid That My Passion for Social Justice Scares Men Off
This is me. Do you ever think that maybe you’re a bit too much when it comes to your conversations with men? This question plagues me each and every time my romantic life falters. Whenever I...
View ArticleIT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was an Escort for Eight Years, Believing It Would...
Before becoming an escort, I had studied to obtain my SSTC in English on and off for years. This plan did not pan out for various logistic reasons and I gave up that dream to become a prostitute....
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M.A.C.'s "Underage" Lip Gloss Sends the Wrong Message
We get that lip gloss names are supposed give you the oomph you need to start an affair with the mail man. But seeing as “underage” defines a person too young to engage legally in sex or alcohol,...
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I Couldn't Afford a Facial, So I Just Used Water
I don’t know about you, but this year’s brutal winter has been giving me major Eeyore vibes. Lately, I’ve been feeling sluggish, tired, and sulky. Not only has this bleak weather been affecting my...
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What It's Like to Fall Asleep With Jeff Bridges
There is a class of men that I see as both father figures and sex symbols. To say this causes cognitive dissonance and more than a spot of shame would not be incorrect. I don't consider myself an owner...
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#TheDress Broke One of Fashion's Dumbest "Rules"—and Here's Why You Should Too
Groan, groan, grumble, grumble, haven't we heard enough about #TheDress yet? Of course we have, though if you choose to read one more single solitary word about the whole thing, it should be this post...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: A Backstreet Boy Crashed My Wedding
Howie D. of the Backstreet Boys serenades Ryan and me. (Photo Credit: Amanda Stratford Photography)On January 24, 2015, I married my best friend, Ryan.And by January 27, 2015, the wedding in our sleepy...
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I Stopped Wearing a Bra For A Year To Prove a Feminist Point
As a woman, my boobs are probably the one thing on my body I’m most proud of. I may be a perpetual dieter who can’t seem to find the cure-all for my acne-prone skin, but my boobs? They’re always on...
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It Took Me Three Years to Stop Seeing My Niece as Competition
“You’ve never been to see Donna’s chickens?” my mother asked from the driver’s seat of the family Prius. “Nope,” I croaked. Stuffed between my pregnant sister and her three-year-old in the back, I...
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I'm Trying Oil Pulling Long After Everyone Else Has Given It Up
There are roughly one million outmoded, trendy things we as a people have done to ourselves in the hopes of becoming so beautiful that we make strangers spontaneously orgasm on the street. For the most...
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