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Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.
Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves 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 #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State
Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit 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 #235: Suddenly, Our Date Was Not For Us; It Was For Him
Topics include Donald Trump being full of lies, Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, leaving, Lolita, California, Clifton’s Cafeteria, slot machines, Alexa 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 #221: I Should Very Gladly Have Portrayed Myself Here Entire and Wholly Naked
Topics include Anna Nicole Smith, the DeVos family, Stephen King’s IT, Will & Grace, MURDER, Snow White’s Scary Adventures, miniatures, people who remember everything and 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 #218: Like Flirting With A Sad Encyclopedia.
Topics include Supreme streetwear, covering the Donald Trump campaign, yearning to leave the suburbs, Monica Lewinsky, David Foster Wallace, exotic dancing and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #217: Outcasts, Weirdos, Dweebs, Punks, Shy Kids, Cartoon Fanatics, and Serial Fidgeters
Topics include sleep, “my president was Black,” farm-to-table restaurants, Betsy DeVos, Pee Wee Herman, Journey into the Imagination, Chicago State University and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #215: They Drank Champagne and Ate Cake, and She Told Him She Was Happy
Topics include Donald Trump in 1997, The Tower of Terror, My So-Called Life, Steve Bannon, Tom Hanks, Chipotle, Carl’s Jr, how we break, 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!
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Things I Read That I Love #210: The New Sofa Has Nothing To Fear From Me
Topics include Flint, the framing of a PTA mom, perfume, Roger Ailes, the true crime genre, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Miss America, domestic spheres, Winona Ryder and more!
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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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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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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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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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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 on purpose but this week’s TIRTL is like a treasure trove of kickass female writers.
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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!