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We Have Lots of Noise, We Need Lots of Solutions: Preventing Sexual Assault at (Every) American University

The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows…

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May 1, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #124: Well, I Want A Dog Too

Topics include the first teenagers, SF’s housing crisis, murder, too-safe playgrounds, sex workers, life after incarceration and so much more!

Riese —

Apr 25, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.

Topics include Clueless, wounds and self-denial, cults, Vera Nabakov, the Top Chef cruise, a botched rape investigation and more!

Riese —

Apr 18, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #121: You Don’t Want To Fall In Love With Your Own Story Of Tragedy.

Topics include underpaid cheerleaders, the “gig economy,” Circle Football, Rebecca Walker, heroin, sex ed, grad school, Upworthy and moar!

Riese —

Apr 4, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #120: Alfred Kinsey’s Report Makes No Mention Of Games Of Spin-The-Bottle

Topics include the Branch Davidian siege, women writing about sex, autism/disney, traveling while black, Cool Girls, endometriosis and more!

Riese —

Mar 28, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken

Topics include solitary confinement, the Barista class, the burrnesha of Albania, Back to the Future II, Swissair Flight 111, Dazed & Confused and so much more. Srsly this is a…

Riese —

Mar 14, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #117: Strangely, Our Outfits Match The Volkswagen.

Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!

Riese —

Mar 7, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #116: We Should Seek Maximum Publicity and Maximum Debunking

Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!

Riese —

Feb 28, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #115: I Go From Zero To Bitch In 2.5 Seconds

Topics include Sabrina the Teenage Witch, life after “The Real World,” Abercrombie, madness, 4chan and other things too complicated to describe in this little box!

Riese —

Feb 21, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #113: In A Way, We’re All Here To Be Swallowed Up

Topics include Fox News, The Illinois State Fair, Johnny Lewis, Mean Girls, Woody Allen, medical actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and moar!

Riese —

Feb 7, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #112: What Could Possibly Be More Important Than Getting Back Your Beloved Bike?

Topics include suicide, murder, luxury cruises, Lisa Nowak, pickpocketing, cults, football, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and more!

Riese —

Jan 31, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #111: But If I Was Holding A Coconut

Topics include fundamentalist Christian homeschooling, V.C. Andrews, BUST Magazine, the Backstreet Boys, the House of Prayer, ghostwriting, The Greyhound and more!

Riese —

Jan 24, 2014