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Four Femmes on the Celebrations and Expectations of Being A Trans Woman In Comedy
“Once I hit 37, I officially stopped giving a fuck about what anyone thought — outliving your life expectancy makes it real easy to not care.”
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How Chloe Caldwell’s “Women” Shaped My Queer Heartbreak
I couldn’t acknowledge that this was unsustainable, that my life wasn’t the novella I had convinced myself it was.
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#BlackLivesMatter: A Longform Reading List
Fifty years of words I liked reading and you will too! Authors include James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kiese Laymon, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Bayard Rustin and Dr. Brittany Cooper.
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Things I Read That I Love #292: There Are Chocolate Chips In The Freezer
Topics include Babe dot net, The Pioneer Woman, Judge Judy, queer food, GoFundMe healthcare, clapping back, Cooking: Why?, untying the knot at her throat and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television
Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #276: Thelma, Too, Has an Unquenchable Thirst
Topics include Erotic Photo Hunt, Dorothy Allison, school lunch, alt-right extremists, The Spotted Pig, “People in Trouble,” murder on the Appalachian trail, and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #280: Falling In Love With Her Was Like Falling In Love With a Character I’d Written
Topics include The Apprentice, emotional abuse, the year in dog, HIV/AIDS, really gross murder, bad faith reading, Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Warren, and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.
Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!
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Why Did You Betray Your Own Heart, Cathy?
“Last week I found one of those butter-coloured strands on my dress, and wondered. Then I realised it was one of my own, greying hairs. Ten years have passed, and she’s straight now, living with the boyfriend I introduced her to nine and a half years ago.”
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Things I Read That I Love #261: There’s Some Stuff They’d Just Never Do In Their Hometown
Topics include a gun owner thinking twice, bachelorette parties in Nashville, sex in the ’90s, John Hughes, fighting aging with skincare, childhood sexual abuse, Joan Didion, Cardi B and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #263: Spindly and Unkempt as a Manson Girl
Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #254: For That Secret Knowledge Of Which Dykes To Watch Out For
Topics include Missy Elliot, donuts, sexual harassment at the Ford plant, Valerie Solanas, Silicon Valley orgies, murder, “clean eating,” paper and so much more!
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The Sociopath Who Loved Me Enough
“As soon as we met Tara and Tony, our lives morphed to make room for them. Instead of drinking Carol’s parents’ liquor on Friday nights, we went to their apartment in Hillcrest to smoke pot from a bong filled with Midori and play with Tara’s snake.”
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Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star
Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me
Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #236: Perhaps One Day We Can Meet and Cry, Face to Face
Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #222: I Look For Myself In Other Women’s Bodies
Topics include the Olsen twins museum, Mary Gaitskill, taking up space, PewDiePie, the Milo bus, menstrual cups, women’s prisons, airports and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It
Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #223: On The Razor Edge Of His Teenaged Angst
Topics include addiction memoirs, solitary confinement, murder, the ban / the wall, Ulta Beauty, summer, Sarah Schulman, the music of My So-Called Life and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #213: Can These Desires and Needs Survive Together
Topics include Dress for Success, OJ Simpson, open marriages, Star Tours, what men love about war, lesbians in the ’90s, a white supremacist who went to college and changed his mind and so much more!