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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

Cannibals, like lesbians, are feared for their selective appetites.

Mallory

Oct 14, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about…

Bee Beardsworth

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Oct 7, 2024

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard

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Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie

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Sep 11, 2024

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

Super Size Me really fucked me up as a kid. I am a fat, bummed…

Gyasi Hall

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Sep 5, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…

Bee Beardsworth —

Oct 7, 2024

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard —

Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie —

Sep 11, 2024

Bubble Trouble

Three retro cans of Cherry Coke surrounded by gummy sodas and bottle caps against a jazz cup pattern

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Cherry Coke Triptych

Giving up caffeinated soda was one of the hardest parts of being pregnant.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Mar 10, 2023

britney spears

Bubble Trouble

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On 2018’s Britney Spears Diet Pepsi Cans and the Most Intense Gaslighting of My Career

I used to love grocery shopping after my divorce. I would buy things that only I liked.

Nico —

Mar 9, 2023

Bubble Trouble

three cans of coca-cola classic and three cans of diet coke

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Coca-Cola Used To Be Fifty Cents and We Used To Be Close

(Stop writing about the Coke when what you’re really trying to write about is the end of a friendship and then another and then another.)

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 9, 2023

Bubble Trouble

organic yerba mate in Enlighten Mint flavor with chips around them and a jazz cup design in the background

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Grind Culture Made Fizzy Energy Drinks My Toxic Writing Partner

This is not a cautionary tale or a poignant anecdote about finding myself amid waves of imposter syndrome

Julie Gentile —

Mar 8, 2023

Bubble Trouble

sobriety

an overhead shot of a nearly empty cup of soda, surrounded by gummy sodas and bottle caps

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Seltzer Tastes Like Punishment

There are so many good songs about drinking but none about seltzer, have you noticed that?

Autumn Fourkiller —

Mar 7, 2023

Bubble Trouble

The following beers: Mickey's, Coors Light, Natural Ice, Miller Genuine Draft, and Bud Light Lime

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Beers I Drank From Ages 14 to 20 That Made Me the ‘Man’ I Am Today

Every punk party — whether it was in Ft. Lauderdale or Lake Worth or North Miami — had the exact same drink options. Either you were drinking Mickey’s or you…

Stef Rubino —

Mar 7, 2023

asexuality

reproductive health

On the right, there is a glass vase filled with lavender and some dried pink flowers. A white wall and a diagonal wood panel are in the background. To the left of the vase, there are two, hanging strings of crystals. They reflect rainbow flecks of light onto the wall.

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My Hysterectomy and Early Menopause Reshaped My Sexuality — So My Queerness Found New Spaces to Inhabit

Where once my sexuality flourished in the spaces of the unknown, it is now content to be still.

Juniper Fitzgerald —

Mar 6, 2023

Bubble Trouble

three bottles of Vintage seltzer with a jazz cup pattern behind them and a bunch of gummy sodas

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My Seltzer, My Self

Do you remember the first time you stumbled upon a satisfaction you tried to make entirely your own?

Caroline Darya Framke —

Mar 6, 2023

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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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The Gay Algorithm

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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The Gay Algorithm

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

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