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For Your Consideration: Roasting a Full Duck Because You Miss Your Dog

I’m a slob in the kitchen. I’m a slob in most domains of my life, but especially in the kitchen. I’ve always known this, but living with Lola made me…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 12, 2025

For Your Consideration: Knowing When It’s Over

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For Your Consideration: Knowing When It’s Over

You have to know when to end things, and you have to follow through with it.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 6, 2019

For Your Consideration: Donating to Autostraddle

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For Your Consideration: Donating to Autostraddle

For the past five-ish years, I have worked in the hellish, uncertain landscape known as the media industry. I have written for well over a dozen publications. None have made…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jul 23, 2019

For Your Consideration: Bridges

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For Your Consideration: Bridges

When everything starts moving too fast, I like to walk on bridges.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jul 9, 2019

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For Your Consideration: Introduction to Women’s Studies

I didn’t know then that Devon would become one of those women in my life who’s there for good, who I could not text for months and then suddenly dive…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jun 25, 2019

For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands

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For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands

Over the past four years, I fell in love, traveled many places, had my heart broken, unraveled. I also ate a lot of seafood platters. Here are some of them.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 28, 2019

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For Your Consideration: 30 Slightly Unhinged Post-Breakup Activities That Aren’t Actually That Bad

Embrace a little chaos without getting in trouble with your therapist.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 14, 2019

For Your Consideration: Asking for Directions

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For Your Consideration: Asking for Directions

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is perfectly fine and legal to ask someone for directions when you are lost.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 30, 2019

For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup

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For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup

For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 16, 2019

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For Your Consideration: This Stupid F*cking Juice

This cold-pressed, organic, lacto-fermented, natural, biodynamic, raw juice is the answer to all my problems, surely.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 2, 2019

For Your Consideration: Chaos Journaling

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For Your Consideration: Chaos Journaling

It’s like bullet journaling except not at all!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 19, 2019

For Your Consideration: Make the Bisque

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For Your Consideration: Make the Bisque

Become a kitchen top, even if just for one day.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 5, 2019