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Things I Read That I Love #209: Take Your Ghastly Revolutionary Ideas Out To The Garden

Topics include Munchausen by proxy and murder, Shop Jeen, every restaurant in Epcot Center, Joanne the Scammer, housing segregation, little people in Hollywood and so much more!

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Aug 26, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #208: To Be Free Of Other People’s Bullshit Is To Be Truly Free

Topics include the American Shopping Mall, going to Disneyworld alone, the Tamir Rice case, a killer in Yosemite, aesthetic homogeneity and so much more.

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Aug 12, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #207: The Ideal Woman Has No Appetitie

Topics include suicide in the Mall of America, John Cho, police, genetic sexual attraction, Diane Arbus, Donald Trump’s hotels, musical.ly and more!

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Jul 29, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #206: At Last I Saw A Woman, Younger Than I’ve Ever Been

Topics include Black Lives Matter, catching up with the prisoners whose sentences were commuted by Obama, OJ Simpson circa 2001, Marie Kondo, Bill Cosby, Miami Beach and moar!

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Jul 15, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #205: It May Not Be ‘Cool’ To Be Sad, But It’s Cool To Be Yourself.”

Topics include Judith Butler, domestic goddesses, the for-profit prison industry, what Uber drivers make, Abigail Fishers, sexism, sad girl fashion and more!

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Jul 1, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #204: Her Boob Is So Soft It Makes Velvet Feel Like Splinters.

Topics include Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, the (formerly) most liberated woman in America, Blac Chyna, LinkedIn, sex crimes and more.

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Jun 17, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #203: The Feeling That Your Body Is Running You

Topics include bias risk-predictors employed by sentencing judges, The Rainforest Cafe, Black Trauma Remixed For Your Clicks, journalism, how/why millionaire athletes go broke, IBS, the man with ten wives and…

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Jun 3, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #202: My Body Was The Grand Canyon, Vast and Hollowed Out

Topics include oxycontin addiction, RENT, sporting goods stores, the science of love, Arby’s, Jodie Foster, the history of gender-segregated public bathrooms and more!

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May 20, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #201: What Kind Of Grinch Would I Be To Have a Problem With a Bunch of Kids Dancing?

Topics include Cosmopolitan circa 1970, the abuse of mentally ill prisoners, job-hunting, Prince, Franzia, a boy injected with HIV by his father and so much more!

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May 6, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #200: Humour Can Be a Callous Protection Against The Terrible

Topics include Tonya / Marcia / Monica / Anita, true crime TV, sugar, marijuana, Ben & Jerrys, rape culture, identity clickbait, Lifetime and more!

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Apr 22, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #199: A Life-Size Vagina Mascot Runs Around The Field With A Megaphone

Topics include “Men Explain Lolita To Me,” Marcia Clark, Trumplandia, spinsters, the University of Texas Tower shooting, the escort who killed her client in self-defense — I didn’t do this…

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Apr 8, 2016

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Things I Read That I Love #198: I Wondered Why Female Violence Was Always So Quick To Turn On Itself.

Topics include gay chefs, Colonel Sanders, gentrification, online dating, tindering across Europe, Instacart, writing about feminism for Playboy and moar!

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Mar 25, 2016