Relationships

Ask Auntie Randa: How Can I Recharge After a Sexless Relationship?

Randa Jarrar’s advice on Arab community-building and starting a pussy journal. Read more »

Neither Slave Nor Pharaoh: Finding the Divine in BSDM

To be Muslim is to be one who submits. Read more »

“New Black Swing” Pulls Back the Curtain on Ending Love

New Black Swing is all about the slow end of a relationship you thought would last forever. Read more »

Warrior To Wallflower: “Stranger Things” Shrinks Nancy Wheeler

Nancy doesn’t need Jonathan or Steve to get out of Hawkins. Read more »

Social Lies vs. Social Lives: Friendships in the Age of Instagram

“Ingrid Goes West” proves nearly everybody uses social media to lie about who they are. Read more »

Small Change: Queer Feminist Characters Deserve “Happily Ever After” Romance Novels

I wanted the romance genre to have space for a character like Ginger. Read more »

Popaganda: Redefining Dating

How many more trend pieces can you stomach on the theme of “Millennials Killed Traditional Dating”? There’s this idea in our culture that this generation has fundamentally changed dating—for the worse. That we’re getting away from “traditional” dating and into some terrible uncharted... Read more »

Teenage Fever: “Everything, Everything” Subverts the Whiteness of Teen Romance Movies

Everything, Everything proves that teen romance movies don’t have to revolve around whiteness. Read more »

Be a Man: The Disruption of Toxic Masculinity in “Master of None”

Master of None models what healthy platonic relationships should look like for men. Read more »

Mommies & Murder: "Big Little Lies" Roundtable for Two

We gathered for a roundtable on schoolyard scandal, parents, and murder predictions. Read more »

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