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Into the A+ Advice Box #16: Your Ex Is Getting Married, Closure is a Myth and More!

Worries about a roommate’s mental health, thinking of dating after almost a decade of being single, evangelical parents and bisexuality, what to call your girlfriend when she dominates you, and…

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Aug 7, 2020

Roundtables

love + sex

What We Wish We’d Known Before We Started Gay Dating

“You don’t have to be friends with the girl you met on Tinder (even if she says “wanna be friends instead?” after two dates and some exceedingly mediocre sex).”

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Aug 6, 2020

a+ roundtable

love is a lie

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You Oughta Know: The Letters to Our Exes We Won’t Send

But we will show you!

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Jul 30, 2020

extra extra

news

Extra! Extra!: Is That Big Tech in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

This week’s Extra! Extra! covers a few topics that haven’t gotten much attention in our coverage lately: big tech and the surveillance state, a look at America’s broken education system…

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Jul 24, 2020

a+ roundtable

af+

Our Deepest, Darkest Relationship Fears, NBD

“My biggest relationship fear is that my desire to not be controlled means that I’ll be alone forever and never receive any feeling of comfort or security. Yikes! Typing that…

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Jul 23, 2020

Roundtables

love + sex

What We Wish We’d Known Before Having Gay Sex for the First Time

“Porn and MTV made me feel like every time I had lesbian sex there would be fireworks, crying and cuddling. Not the case.”

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Jul 20, 2020

covid-19

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Extra! Extra!: How Do We Imagine the Future in a Pandemic Where We’ve Yet to Reckon with the Past Two Months?

This week’s Extra! Extra! covers new expose’s on police brutality and violence against Black and brown bodies, an update on the pandemic that isn’t actually happening right now and tragically…

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Jul 17, 2020

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Into the A+ Advice Box #15: So Your Boss Sent a Hurtful Email About You

Broken up with during quarantine, exploring your sexuality in quarantine, feeling concerned about being “okay” in quarantine, sage advice for parents of a non-binary kid and more!

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Jul 17, 2020

covid-19

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news

Extra! Extra!: Reopening Spikes and New COVID-19 Transmission Info Ring Us into Pandemic Summer

As the world crosses half a million confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, this week’s Extra! Extra! turns its focus to the latest COVID news and the disparate toll of the…

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Jul 10, 2020

2020 election

covid-19

news

Extra! Extra!: On the State of Democracy, Flags and Statues as US’s Independence Day Approaches

On the eve of wealthy cis white men who made their money through slavery declaring independence for stolen land, this week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the state of…

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Jul 3, 2020

advice

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Into the A+ Advice Box #14: What to Say to a Friend Proposing 6 Months In?

What do I say when I think my friend might be rushing into marriage? Trauma and opening up a relationship, exploring sexually with a long-term partner, feelings about a (possibly…

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Jul 3, 2020

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link roundup

news

Extra! Extra!: What’s Changing – and Staying the Same – in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death?

This week’s Extra! Extra! takes us back to the state where George Floyd died to check on the progress towards justice. We take a look at some of the implausible…

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Jun 26, 2020