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Bitch in a Box: Hostile Gifts 2019
This year’s hostility calls for something a little less subtle as we kiss this garbage year goodbye.
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In 2019, Here’s How Queer People Do the Holidays
“We are learning to intentionally carve out joyful spaces for ourselves.”
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The Unbelievers: New Atheism and the Old Boys’ Club
So is new-style atheism the sausage party that media coverage would suggest?
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Bitch in a Box: A Leafy Gift Guide for Plant Parents
All of the gifts on this list are certified green.
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Bitch in a Box: 7 Gifts for the Phone-Obsessed Child
These gifts help leverage the hours spent on phone apps and social media into tangible skills we can all use.
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Bitch in a Box: 6 Gifts for Everyone in the Zodiac
These gifts offer up a bit of the magic and ritual found in the stars.
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The Patriarchy Is in the Pudding
Making Christmas pudding is turning out to be like childbirth or menopause—one of those things women don’t talk about, and when you get there yourself, you realize that it would’ve been great for someone to have mentioned incontinence, vaginal dryness, or the need for inordinate upper body strength... Read more »
Nowhere Is Home: Two Well-Traveled Writers on Roots, Writing, and Exile
There’s some way that trips are actually about traveling inside, a journey you need to make in your own life that you can’t make if you stay in the place you live.
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Bitch in a Box: 9 Self-Care Gifts That Aren’t Bath Bombs
Though self-care might be largely divorced from its radical roots, those who practice it as it was intended still know how vital it is.
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(Un)Spoken Truths: Cousins Grace and Roslyn Talusan on the Healing Power of Storytelling
Everything in our culture would like us to repress trauma, and shame is at the core of this.
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