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Things I Read That I Love #179: I Would Have You Be A Conscious Citizen Of This Terrible and Beautiful World

Topics include lithium, a terrible cult, Taylor Swift, immigrant detention, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ letter to his son, LGBT Pride and The Awl.

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Jul 10, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #177: A Kind Of Inoculation Against Future Hurt

Topics include queer mamas and donor sperm, suicide in Palo Alto, Mary Gaitskill and men, orthodontics, black feminism, Baltimore and moar!

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Jun 12, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #176: The Many-Gendered Mothers Of My Heart

Topics include indoor malls, therapy, queer identity (well it’s more complicated than that — you’ll see), Judy Blume, domestic abuse in South Carolina and more.

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May 29, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #174: Characters Arise Out Of Our Need For Them

Topics include Dominique Moceanu, crowdfunding, recording our lives on social media, illness and diagnosis in comics, fan fiction, murder, the end of “bohemian” San Francisco and so much more!

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May 1, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #172: A Life Not Quite Mine

Topics include The Bachelor, supermax prisons, Robert Durst’s futon, Brittney Spears, being a black cop, working at Hardee’s, Comcast, murder, Flawless and moar!

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Apr 3, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #171: All Of My Fellow Sad Young Literary Girls

Topics include Detroit, Robert Durst, homelessness in San Francisco, lesbians falsely imprisoned on sex abuse charges, Joan Didion and more!

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Mar 20, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #170: Like The Truth Was Such A Pleasure To Step into

Topics include race in Silicon Valley, Ophelia, the Famous Writers School, The Jinx and Serial, the beginnings of the North American slave trade and more!

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Mar 13, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #169: More Stories We Tell Ourselves In Order to Live

Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!

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Mar 6, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination

Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!

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Feb 27, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #167: The Dark Fruits Of The Life I Had Chosen

Topics include showbiz seniors, independent Black American film-making, genetic sexual attraction, prostitution in Germany and so much more! Also an essay by the late David Carr.

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Feb 20, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #166: She Wished She Could Grab The Happiness

Topics include the Albuquerque police department, Mary Gaitksill, 50 Shades of Grey, how San Francisco looks in “Looking,” Sweden, a letter from a death row inmate and more!

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Feb 13, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #165: We Are Totally Obsessed With Our Stomachs

The National review on its own racism, queering makeup, The John Wayne Gacy Files, defending awful humans in court, Casey Kasem, Broad City and more!

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Feb 6, 2015