Results for: book
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Things I Read That I Love #306: She Has a Colander On Her Head, Like A Conspiracy Theorist
Topics include Geocities, e-books, the politics of mental health, podcast passivity, Mount Everest’s social climber, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, filming/staging sex scenes and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way
Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so much more!
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I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons
Personal icons from Greta Garbo to Jenny Lewis: how we come by them, fall in love with them, and want to be like them. Who’s to say whether we’re really falling in love with them or with ourselves? Who’s to say whether we want to be them or be with them?
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Things I Read That I Love #295: Put All Your Deaths, Accidents and Diseases Up Front
Topics include the consolations of the mask, who the actual “founding fathers” are, the unexpected perils of asynchronous communication, a romantic investment in bohemia, company culture as per a crisis inside Google and the tyranny of structurelessness and many other concepts of interest to me and maybe also to you!
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Things I Read That I Love #296: She is Also Tiny and Platinum Blond With a Look of Engineered Disaster About Her
Topics include my favorite TV show Are You The One?, crossword puzzles, air conditioning, an online public meltdown, dooce, swimming, How Things Are at Deadspin, pregnancy, Bumble and so much more!
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Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People
In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.