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Culture & Entertainment

Notes From a Crypto GF: A Mostly Serious NFT Glossary

Recently, the gaggle of online dictionaries that are still trying to appeal to a Gen-Z audience announced their words of the year. Merriam Webster, in their signature, dignified fashion, chose…

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6 min

Fashion & Beauty

How TikTok Makes Fast Fashion Faster

Early this spring, fueled by the riches of a recent paycheck and the exhilaration (fear) of finals week, I purchased the dress. No, I’m not talking about that dress, although…

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Life

Before-and-After Photos Aren’t Good for Eating Disorder Advocacy

At the apex of my eating disorder, I spent hours a day on pro-ana Instagram. For those of you who have been lucky enough never to visit, that’s a community…

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5 min

Life

The Price and Power of Twitter Findom

Bonding—a Netflix original show about the adventures of a dominatrix paying her way through grad school and her small, ginger, comedian GBF—recently aired its second season and I, having just…

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5 min

Culture & Entertainment

Rihanna, Freud, and Mormon Porn: Religious Fetishism in Pop Culture

The 2020 Savage X Fenty Show was a huge success, receiving high praise for inclusion, style, and body positivity—until Muslim fans on social media pointed out the use of a…

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5 min

Life

Why Motherhood Scares Me Shitless

In kindergarten, my friends and I played a lot of house. We officiated weddings attended by tissue paper-veiled brides, made plastic sandwiches, and, most of all, cradled baby dolls. We…

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5 min

Sex & Love

Writers Dating Writers: (Not) A How-To

A quick Google search of “dating a writer” will yield dozens of listicles on how to handle the blue-lit troglodytism of a modern wordsmith. Most of this advice is geared…

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7 min

Culture & Entertainment

Cottagecore, Sans Cottage: The Real Ethos Behind a Blooming Subculture

It’s a fine summer evening. The pastures are saturated with lupine and aster, lending their sweetness to the breeze that sweeps in from the open window, ruffling the gauzy curtains.…

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6 min

News & Politics

How to Be Anti-Racist When Everyone Is White

I’ll never forget how it felt leaving my predominantly Black school in Kenya for an overwhelmingly white one overseas. During my first few weeks, I’d furrow my brows in every…

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4 min

Sex & Love

Sex While Anorexic: A Story About My Body

I was just starting fourth grade when I self-diagnosed as anorexic, using a charming pastel illustration in The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Younger Girls. When…

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F*ck Your Boy Genius—He Doesn’t Exist

It’s the Perfect Time to Watch Todd Haynes’s Films

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