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Open-Minded: Rachel Krantz on Nonmonogamy as a Labor of Love
Journalist Rachel Krantz, a founding editor of Bustle, was 27 when she met Adam, a professor who encouraged her curiosity about nonmonogamy and dominant/submissive dynamics. What happened next is detailed in Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy (... Read more »
Immortal Machine: Vauhini Vara Processes Death Through A.I.
Jenna Mahale interviews writer Vauhini Vara about her work with GPT-3, an A.I. writing program that she collaborated with on a recent essay about her loss of her sister.
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Waste Land: For Migrants, Water Bottles Are a Matter of Life and Death
Plasticity has historically been denied to the racialized “whose bodies are seen as rigid, inflexible, overly reactive, and insufficiently absorptive, contagions to the potential growth of the population.” Whiteness is defined by plasticity, by the capacity for change and growth. The land is... Read more »
Toys Are Us: Unlocking Trauma Through Classic Trinkets
“Living in a world filled with uncertainty and some pretty terrible things, people are seeking toyetic comfort food.”
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Owe Really: Financial Advice Ignores the Shared Reality of Debt
When financial advice doesn’t openly acknowledge that people live with debt, it only reinforces shame and guilt.
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Refresh and Rebuild: Plotting the Future of New York’s Most Conservative Borough
“We get a bad narrative that it’s Trumpville, that it’s racist,” Jasmine Robinson, who moved to Staten Island from the Bronx when she was 17, tells Bitch. “That’s not all of Staten Island.”
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20 Years Later, Muslim Women Reflect on Post-9/11 Islamophobia
Suspicious looks. Verbal harassment. Unshakeable fear.
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You Are the Sun: Being Single Is No Longer a Social Sob Story
Partnership is not a prize to be won or a goal to be achieved.
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Numbers Game: Pro-Ana, Incels, and the Incessant Policing of Women’s Bodies
For incels and pro-ana alike, conforming to beauty standards is the only path to happiness and success.
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Love Sick: It’s Time to Uncouple Care Work from Romantic Love
The pandemic has laid bare the American assumption that romantic relationships provide all the care we need.
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