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Open-Minded: Rachel Krantz on Nonmonogamy as a Labor of Love

Author photo of Rachel Krantz, a white woman with long curly brown hair and a blue t shirt. Next to her is the cover of her book, Open.
by Andi Zeisler
April 1, 2022 at 11:03am
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 (2022, Harmony). 
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Swiped Out: Nancy Jo Sales Wrote the Book on the Corporate Triumph of Big Dating

by Andi Zeisler
May 20, 2021 at 12:31pm
Misogyny wasn’t invented by dating apps. It was just weaponized by them. Read more »
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Love and Surveillance: Dating Shows Channel More Than Reality

by Imran Siddiquee
April 14, 2021 at 9:22am
Netflix released multiple reality TV shows in 2020 that feature beautiful people blissfully succumbing to the power of being watched. Read more »
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You Are the Sun: Being Single Is No Longer a Social Sob Story

by Aditi Juneja
March 29, 2021 at 1:39pm
Partnership is not a prize to be won or a goal to be achieved. Read more »
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Love No Limit: The Messiness of Pandemic Sex

by Josie Pickens
September 29, 2020 at 1:06pm
Sex, even with those you are quarantining with, carries some risk of exposure. Read more »
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Who Asked for Michelle Obama’s Misguided Dating Advice?

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 14, 2020 at 1:10pm
What Obama says about marriage and dating matters because of her credibility, and her audience. Read more »
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Fanfiction to Film: “The Kissing Booth” Brings Misogyny from Wattpad to Netflix

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
July 31, 2020 at 2:33pm
Why are the fanfics that become films so misogynist? Read more »
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“365 Days” is another Abuse Story Painted as Romance

by Meggie Gates
July 14, 2020 at 10:15am
The romance genre has been dominated by dominant men for years. Read more »
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Sticky Fingers: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Sexting?

by Noa Azulai
December 11, 2019 at 1:39pm
Regardless of the progression of sexting as a practice, the way women are exploited online has yet to change. Read more »
Summer Walker, a Black woman R&B singer, poses in a white durag while talking into a pink phone

(Black) Girls Need Love Too: R&B Creates New Standards for Situationships

by Eden Bekele
December 10, 2019 at 3:11pm
This generation of Black women R&B artists are seeking clarity and setting new relationship standards for themselves—and their devoted fanbases. Read more »
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From Online Discourse to IRL: 4 Bisexual People Define Bisexuality for Themselves

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 7, 2019 at 6:39pm
Bitch is lucky to have multiple bisexual employees, so we’re using this roundtable to parse out our own experiences as bisexuals. Read more »

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