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  1. Nov 25

    Scotland’s free sanitary products news 🤩 A good time to revisit this epic BBC profile “It was then that he decided to test the products on himself. "I became the man who wore a sanitary pad," he says.”

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    Nov 3

    Rosie Perez dancing to "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy in DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) dir. Spike Lee

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  3. Nov 24

    "I saw them laughing and bobbing and waving amid the whitecaps of their marriage." such a striking, expansive essay about the perils of love

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  4. Nov 20

    my fave is the hero former 3rd grade teacher "Kunhardt jumped out of bed and went to the garage of her home in New Hampshire, where she currently works at a domestic violence shelter and teaches poetry at a prison, and located her archive of memories from her St. Hilda’s years"

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  5. Nov 20

    an ~experience~, this story

    𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕚𝕜𝕒 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕡𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 This is the story of how Fiona Apple came to reunite with her childhood schoolmate Shameika Stepney—inspiration to her FTBC song "Shameika"—and the powerful new track they made together 🌠
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  6. Nov 19

    I would watch this tv show

    Me to my dad: How do I motivate my boyfriend to look for a job Dad: You sit him down, look him in the eye, and say, ‘It’s you and me against the beast America. To work under capitalism is to maintain a constant but necessary pretense of interest in labor’ Me: ...thanks
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    Nov 17

    🚨Call for Pitches 🚨 I'm looking for original personal essays & perspectives (800-1600 words long) for . We publish engaging writing about the Western U.S. from diverse perspectives. Hit me up if you have a good story to tell. .

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  8. Nov 12

    (It’s beautiful and transportive: “I could imagine Hansel or Gretel emerging from the green to open the gate. It was one of Berlin’s last remaining mysteries in a vast city that by then felt thoroughly discovered.”)

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  9. Nov 12

    Comparisons are odious but this is much better Euro-escapism than Emily In Paris

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  10. Nov 9

    “He didn’t have to die the way he did, in a small, cold room, separated from everyone he loved. All his hard work, all his responsibility, meant a pittance in the end. There is no justice but a fairer future.”

    I wrote about my grandfather's death from COVID-19, and what I believe it says about the limitations of social mobility in the US.
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    Nov 4

    I don't know what's going to happen in Georgia, but fact that it's close is a testament to work has been doing for years and years. Here she was describing Georgia's path forward to me four years ago:

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  12. Nov 2

    “Lately, Acton..has been thinking about kindness as a path to building the kind of resilience and preparedness that will be necessary to mentally manage the coming year, in phases.”

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  13. Oct 26

    the prince and me...don't sleep on it

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  14. Oct 19

    *je

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  15. Oct 19

    Ok I am watching Emily In Paris and crying real tears so all the haters can just ne sais quoi

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  16. Oct 13

    my friend is a master texter

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  17. Oct 4

    “Their cells carried echoes of the origins of life, of multicellularity, of consciousness... All of that led to two tiny bodies, unrepeatable, full of boundless potential.”

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  18. Oct 4

    Gorgeous & timeless piece of timely writing

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  19. Oct 2

    I love how not-neat this neat little love story is

    For Modern Love, I wrote about how I met my husband (who is brown like me) and how I beat my oppressive desire for white dudes along the way
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  20. Oct 2

    waiting for the one-woman show

    I feel very very very lucky to have access to stories and they are the most wonderful amazing things. Here's one she's let out into the wild and it rips. Hate the description "funny and moving" but it fits.
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