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more than words

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More Than Words: 14 Ways The New York Times Has Hated On Brunch Since 1939

“I HOPE IT DIES ABORNING.”

By Cara| August 11, 2014 | 14 Comments
Society + Culture

More Than Words: More Words, Then!

How to further evolution — with just your brain and your tongue!

By Cara| May 19, 2014 | 7 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls

What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.

By Cara| April 21, 2014 | 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

More Than Words: Bi Bi Bi

When identity terms get thrown in the pressure cooker.

By Cara| April 7, 2014 | 58 Comments
Herstory Issues

More Than Words: Ra Ra Bras!

Pardon my French.

By Cara| March 31, 2014 | 5 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Coming Out Party

Skeletons and debutantes.

By Cara| March 10, 2014 | 9 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Tomboys R Us

“Is all your delite and joy in whiskying and romping abroad like a Tom boy?” This post is for you.

By Cara| February 25, 2014 | 41 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Gay Pt. 2 — Gay Cats

Come on, you knew there’d be cats involved.

By Cara| February 10, 2014 | 4 Comments
The L Word

More Than L-Words: Top 10 Fake L-Word Episodes I Just Made Up

There are so many great L-words they didn’t get to use.

By Cara| January 24, 2014 | 47 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Gay Pt. 1 — We’re Going Gay

Happiness, Latin vaginas, northern winds, and flaming quarrels. And we’re just getting started.

By Cara| January 13, 2014 | 14 Comments
Society + Culture

More Than Words: The Year In Words 2013

It was wacky! It was depressing! It’s finally over! From “undocumented” to “transphobia” to “affluenza,” come look at the words that defined a year and defined themselves at the same time. (“Selfie” is nowhere on this list, I promise.)

By Cara| December 30, 2013 | 6 Comments
Feminism

More Than Words: Mansplaining

You don’t need me to tell you what this is.

By Cara| December 16, 2013 | 42 Comments
Geekery

More Than Words: Queer Internet Linguistics

Why should the rest of the internet have all the fun?

By Cara| December 2, 2013 | 69 Comments
News + Politics

More Than Words: On the Word “Gay” and Definitive Dilemmas

Which should change first — society or the dictionary?

By Cara| November 18, 2013 | 16 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: The F-Word, Pt. 2: Feminists(??!??)

“Melaine Randall has said that “the day we start defining feminism, it has lost its vitality.” I’d parry with “the day we start defining feminism, we get an enormous headache and end up subjecting readers to like 1500 words of confusion, because it is impossible.”

By Cara| November 4, 2013 | 12 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Which Witch is Which?

“[No one can break] the spell laid by language on this word.” Happy Halloween, witchez.

By Cara| October 21, 2013 | 18 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Amped For Camp

Are all camp-related words fun to say? Maybe.

By Cara| October 7, 2013 | 7 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: The F-Word (Pt. 1) — Féministes

The first self-defined feminists, boobs, and a lemonade ocean.

By Cara| September 23, 2013 | 25 Comments
Feminism

More Than Words: Adjective Invective

In which the hysterical, nagging, irrational Jennifer Weiner won’t take “strident” in stride.

By Cara| September 9, 2013 | 15 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 3 – They Said/Ze Said

The grammatical is political.

By Cara| August 26, 2013 | 25 Comments
Herstory

More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?

“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”

By Cara| August 5, 2013 | 18 Comments
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