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.
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Neither Slave Nor Pharaoh: Finding the Divine in BSDM
To be Muslim is to be one who submits.
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“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.
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Warrior To Wallflower: “Stranger Things” Shrinks Nancy Wheeler
Nancy doesn’t need Jonathan or Steve to get out of Hawkins.
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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.
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Small Change: Queer Feminist Characters Deserve “Happily Ever After” Romance Novels
I wanted the romance genre to have space for a character like Ginger.
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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.
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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.
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Mommies & Murder: "Big Little Lies" Roundtable for Two
We gathered for a roundtable on schoolyard scandal, parents, and murder predictions.
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