Results for: queer parenting
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Things I Read That I Love #92: More Like Staying Drunk
Topics include Detroit, leaving New York, the illegal online network for discarding unwanted adopted children, toxic hair straightening, bikini waxing, airport security, The O.C., racism, hockey journalism, The History Channel and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You
Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!
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140 Longform Pieces You Can Read And Love
140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
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Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See
Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #79: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #74: I’m The Dopest Ghost In Town
Topics include the kids of the movie “KIDS,” mental health care, public housing, women in the Middle East, SXSW, escaping North Korea, Texas beauty pageants, a year without internet and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #65: Ellen Finds A Plumber
Topics include Ellen circa 1998, women in the KKK, the HMS Bounty, high cost medical care, long prison terms and poverty, Adalia Rose, studio photography, child beauty pageants & manufacturing in America.
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Things I Read That I Love #63: Like A Warm Danish From An Expensive Pastry Shop
Topics include ICU nurses, Orson Scott Card, Dr. Oz, working your way through college, prosecuting potential sex offenders, two-timing in New Orleans, google destroying San Francisco and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
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Things I Read That I Love #41: In Claudia’s Handwriting
Topics include surfing, Kraft Dinner, the inherent danger of existing while female, The Babysitters Club, the flood in Pratsville, hardcore and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #38: She Hit Send
Topics include Dominique Moceanu, life insurance, Sweet Valley High, Spike Lee, bath salts, Juggalos, life insurance, hipster conservatives and abortion!
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Things I Read That I Love #32: I’m Collecting You
Topics include book collecting, secret shopping, body image, the value of a college education and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #33: Girls, Sex, Money
Topics include lesbian enclaves, the worst child neglect story ever, school segregation, the Pulitzer, the “age of girlfriends,” sex in red states vs. blue states, stoned fortysomethings and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #22: A Nice Day For a Daydream
Topics include Carl Sagan explaining why he smokes weed, The Great Zucchini, an innocent man on death row, The Huffington Post, the cost of being a lady writer in NYC and The War Against Youth.
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Things I Read That I Love #18: So I Can Vote
Topics include Xanax, Trayvon Martin, waitressing, dystopian fiction, David Sedaris, the HBO show “Girls” and “The Jimmy McNulty Gambit.”
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Things I Read That I Love #17: Robo-Readers
Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!
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Things I Read That I Love #15: Better Late Than Never
This week’s topics include sorority girls, raising kids these days, neuroenhancing drugs, online shopping warehouse working conditions and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #10
Today’s topics include living alone, Grey Gardens, Mary Karr, homophobia at an elite private school in Texas, Victoria Jackson and the influence of Pitchfork.
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Things I Read That I Love #5: Law & Order Edition Part Two
Humans doing really terrible things to other humans!