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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

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judaism

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I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One

“I’m an easy host, a rake, a card, I’m bejeweled, I have a gay face. I want to love and be loved. If reaching is a kind of being, it’s…

Temim Fruchter —

Feb 19, 2024

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Divorce Week

An illustration of a Black woman with an afro who is looking in both directions, in the colors of rose and brick red.

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I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming

Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.

Ahuv Ne’eman —

Feb 17, 2024

Untethered

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Untethered: The Designated Girl-Son

I came across the concept of the “designated son” on TikTok.

Nico —

Feb 8, 2024

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They Should Have Sent A Poet

“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time…

Gabrielle Korn —

Feb 7, 2024

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A black and white photo of a trans man that is blurred.

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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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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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