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Things I Read That I Love #185: You Don’t Choose Her But She Finds You

Topics include the Slender Man murders, girls’ games, multilevel marketing, how to write about trans women, scars, Disneyland/Dismaland, Kony 2012 and moar!

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Sep 25, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #184: It Seemed Everyone, Even The Moon, Was Laughing and Drunk.

Topics include working at Disney, the real lives of Sugar Daddies, Michael Derrick Hudson in context, the ghost town of Bodie, Live Aid, an essay that made me cry and…

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Sep 11, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #183: Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable Is A Very Effective Way To Be A Human

Topics include needing diverse books, prison food, Tinder As Video Game, the scam of the Art Academy of San Francisco, a triple murder in Florida, sorority life and so much…

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Aug 28, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #182: In The Morning, I Was Eating Peanuts, I Saw A Light

Topics include Issa Rae, mistreatment of workers on H-2 visas, the disaster rescue business, Nevada, Tinder, Hiroshima, the women assaulted by Bill Cosby and more!

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Aug 14, 2015

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Things I Read That I Loved #181: Things I Listened To That I Loved

This past month I spent over 80 hours driving long distances in a car and another 40 hours organizing and packing things into boxes, which meant I didn’t get a…

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Aug 7, 2015

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Things I Read That I Love #180: It’s Never Not My Fault That I Knocked You Off The Chair

Topics include porn stars, the murder of an unarmed homeless black man, The Runaways, Ta-Nehisi Coates, brand-led fake holidays and DigiTour.

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Jul 24, 2015

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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 #178: Silence Is So Often Applauded and Those Who Speak Out Are Often Called Tasteless

Topics include Charleston, Columbia House, Disney superfans, the sharing economy, romance novels, Margaret Cho and more!

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Jun 26, 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 #175: The Return Of Witch-Hunting

Topics include Oscar the Grouch, Monster-in-Law, Uber, Key & Peele, the cruise industry, nail salons and more!

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May 15, 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