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Robin Wright as a Ruthless Monster-in-Law in ‘The Girlfriend’ Gave Me Flashbacks

Did this miniseries steal from my memories?

Nico

Oct 10, 2025

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Transition Is Allowed To Feel Bad Sometimes

Realistically, I understand that if you do something for 11 months, the chance that you’ll feel good for every second of those 11 months is zero.

Max Gross —

Feb 1, 2024

Untethered

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Untethered: You Need Help

Asking for help, the kind that requires another person to set aside time for me, to exert themselves physically, feels as easy as touching a hot stove.

Nico —

Jan 25, 2024

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The Big And

If time is blurry, and I think it is, then so is everything else.

Anya Richkind —

Jan 12, 2024

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Untethered

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Untethered: A Great Lady

I’ve been eulogizing, just to myself, in the moments between other moments that are claimed by tasks or thoughts of the present or literally anything else.

Nico —

Jan 11, 2024

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Queering Time: The Offering of ‘Kairos’

We all know how a certain kind of kiss can eclipse time.

Julia Smith-Eppsteiner —

Jan 7, 2024

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For My 30th Birthday, I Moved Back to New York

Essays about turning 30 are almost as annoying as essays about moving to or from New York.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 28, 2023

Untethered

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Untethered: Mercury Retrogayde

USPS has been sending my mail to my ex.

Nico —

Dec 28, 2023

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Gaza, We Carry You With Us

Every few days, Healthcare Workers Watch sends me a google drive folder with lists of names and photos of healthcare workers killed and abducted in Gaza.

MK —

Dec 28, 2023