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Are You Being Rude Without Realizing It?
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Mar 16, 2015
Mind
Why I Won’t Carry A Gun When I Run
The Toast
Feb 16, 2015
Mind
My Struggle With Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Feb 8, 2015
Wellness
I’m Failing At Life — But Great When It Comes To Dogs
I came home to find Lily sitting under the table. My boyfriend had texted me a picture of a dog, a fluffy yellow puppy that, in another life, had probably
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Books & Art
Books To Read When You Want To Avoid Other People
If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. He, and it will be a “he,” will attempt to catch your eye from the other side of the train. You will point
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Wellness
What It Was Like Being An Adopted Korean Kid With White Parents
By Nicole Soojung Callahan Years ago, two friends sat across from me at their gleaming kitchen table and asked if I thought they should adopt a child. It m
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Sex
I Survived Domestic Abuse, But The Nightmares Haven’t Stopped
Last night I dreamt I was with my ex’s girlfriend, and I was trying to explain it all to her. She was tiny, so tiny I could pick her up, Pietà-style, on
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Mind
Want To Know Why Muslim Women Wear Headscarves? Just Ask Us
While out with my sister in her mostly white neighbourhood, we walked by an elderly woman dressed in a velour tracksuit, plastic visor, and sunglasses I’
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Entertainment
14 Unsatisfied Women In Western Art History
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Books & Art
Let’s Talk About The Books You’ve Pretended To Read
Photographed by Molly Cranna. It is possible, I suppose, that you are the sort of self-actualized person who has never once pretended to have read or seen
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Sex
How To Not Mess Up Your Closest Relationships
I was a practicing couples and family therapist for six years, working with families of kids in facilities, people with schizophrenia, children, and single
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Books & Art
Let’s Talk About The Books You Absolutely
Hate
Photo: Courtesy of The Toast. We talk a great deal about the books we are reading here, and also the books we love to reread, and the books we aspire to so
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Sex
What Happens When Your Virginity Is Taken From You
When was your first time? What was it like? These are bonding questions in this society, in which we are supposed to gain intimacy by sharing the the awkwa
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Mind
A Case For
Not
Saying Sorry
What’s your policy on apologies for epic bad behavior, like 10 years after the fact? I just had a debate about this with someone who suggested it&rsq
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Mind
An Honest Account Of Self-Harm
It wasn’t the first time I’d cut, it wasn’t even the worst, but I still found myself biking to the emergency room at 1:30 a.m. on a Sunda
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Work & Money
The Problem With Taking So-Called “Mental Health” Days
Illustrated by Anna Sudit. Dear Businesslady, The other morning I woke up, thought about going in to work, and was just like “nope.” I called i
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Entertainment
How
Not
To Review Women’s Writing
Illustrated by Julia Sadler. I have gone back and forth several times on whether or not it would be worth addressing Adam Plunkett’s New Yorker revie
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Entertainment
A Hilarious Parody Of Every Sad, Blockbuster Heroine Role, Ever
There is nothing in the world a movie hero’s girlfriend hates more than heroism. At every turn, she looks for a way to stymie her doughty lover&rsquo
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Sex
What It’s Like To Go Back “Into The Closet”
Illustrated by Sydney Hass. At the time of this writing, I have been transitioning for three years, almost to the day. I say “transitioning” as
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Wellness
Do You Have A “Responsibility” To Be Out If You’...
Illustrated by Sydney Hass. Recently, Grantland published a feature by Caleb Hannan about the “scientifically superior” Oracle GX1 putter and i
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Mind
A Heartwrenching Story Of Parenting & Mental Illness
lllustrated by Daniel Koppich. Here’s the situation: I want kids. I could have them. But I’ve decided that I shouldn’t. I’ve fought
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Sex
The Side Of The Trans Experience We DON’T Hear
Last year, my girlfriend and I spent our first Christmas vacation together in my hometown of Dallas, TX. We’d been together for only a few months at the
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Sex
How The Web Morphed My Idea Of How Trans* Should Look
Nothing makes you feel quite as old (at 26, no less) as realizing your students — all university freshmen — don’t recognize a basic aspect of your in
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