The milk and honey author's use of unspecified collective trauma in her quest to depict the quintessential South Asian female experience feels disingenuous.
“it happened to me: / I dated a white anarchist / who made me do all the dishes / while he crowdfunded his trip to Rojava”
"All around me the men are staring like idiots. They can't take their eyes off my lids."
This comic tells the adorable true story of writer Blair Braverman's sled dog, Flame, and how she learned to love baby chickens instead of eating them.
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Idris Elba Can't Seem To Catch A Damn Break
When you have Idris Elba playing some cowboy version of an Arthurian knight in The Dark Tower, why in the multiverse would you shift focus to an annoying kid?
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The Most Powerful Part Of "Detroit" Is Its Ending
Kathryn Bigelow's historical drama struggles with how to portray its incident of racialized violence, and the people on the receiving end of it.
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The Problem With Rupi Kaur's Poetry
The milk and honey author's use of unspecified collective trauma in her quest to depict the quintessential South Asian female experience feels disingenuous.
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Poem: “Follow Him” By Jenny Zhang
“it happened to me: / I dated a white anarchist / who made me do all the dishes / while he crowdfunded his trip to Rojava”
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Read This Very Short Story About Sexual Eyeball Licking
"All around me the men are staring like idiots. They can't take their eyes off my lids."
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Former FBI Director James Comey Is Writing A Book On "Good, Ethical Leadership"
The book about Comey's experiences as director of the FBI — including under the Trump administration — will be published in spring 2018.
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This Girl Has Been Missing For 19 Years, But You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Her
Lost amid the flurry of attention that focuses on missing white girls and women are the names of black girls who disappear. Veronica Pate's daughter, ShyShy, is one of them.
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This Sled Dog Can't Have Puppies, But She Can Raise Chicks
This comic tells the adorable true story of writer Blair Braverman's sled dog, Flame, and how she learned to love baby chickens instead of eating them.
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People Call For A Boycott Of "The Breakfast Club" After A Guest Joked About Killing Trans Women
A week after Janet Mock's appearance on The Breakfast Club radio show, the hosts are coming under fire for their interview with comedian Lil Duval, who joked about killing trans women.
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What To Expect When You're A Trans Dad Expecting
"We’ve heard, overwhelmingly from LGBT people, ‘Thank you for expanding what it means to be a man, to be trans, to be a family.’"
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Indie Rom-Coms Finally Show Black Girls Some Love
By centering a black woman's experience, Netflix’s new film The Incredible Jessica James is the indie rom-com black fans of the genre have been waiting for.
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Charlize Theron Is Not Here To Make Friends
Theron has spent the last 20 years ignoring the unspoken rules of proper (female) star behavior.
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Abstinence-Only, "No Promo Homo" Sex Ed Keeps Queer Teens In The Dark
The only thing sex ed taught me about gay people was that we weren’t supposed to exist.
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The Glorious Bodies Of "GLOW"
GLOW is full of flashy glitter, spandex, and big hair, but at its core it’s a show about women’s bodies.
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"The Emoji Movie" Presumes We're All A Bunch Of Idiots Incapable Of Joy
The Emoji Movie caters to adults first and kids second, while accomplishing neither. (Spoilers, as if you cared.)
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100 Years Ago Today, Thousands Marched In The First Civil Rights Parade
The Silent Parade of 1917 quietly paved the way for civil rights reform, but is often forgotten.
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Martin Shkreli's Trial Was Just As Bizarre As You Might Expect
"Make me some money, Marty."
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The Veteran Who Created The Trans Pride Flag Reacts To Trump's Trans Military Ban
"What Trump did was strictly to serve his bigot followers and nothing else," said Navy veteran Monica Helms, who created the trans pride flag in 1999.
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Hillary Clinton Is Writing A Tell-All Book About The 2016 Presidential Election
Clinton said she is "letting her guard down" in a new memoir titled What Happened.
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It’s Not Easy Being A MILF In Tom Perrotta’s New Novel
"She still found herself visiting the Milfateria from time to time, usually on nights like this when she was bored and lonely and looking for something to cheer her up, or at least distract her for a little while."
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How Witchcraft Became A Brand
It's a spirituality, it's an aesthetic, and it's more popular than ever.
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The Reason Why Anne Sexton's "Courage" Poem Is Featured In "To The Bone"
"It felt exactly like a rallying cry for people who feel unsafe and unimportant," Marti Noxon, writer and director of To the Bone, told BuzzFeed News.
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How "Game Of Thrones" Feeds Its Own Thinkpiece Industry
In the era of peak TV, the thinkpiece as a tool to keep us watching has never been more effective.
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The Old Order Of Bollywood Is Under Threat And They Can't Handle It
Tone-deaf jokes, half-hearted apologies, and fumbling explanations are a sign of how fragile Bollywood's dynasty-born stars are right now. And for good reason: Outsiders are fighting them with winning weapons – hard work, hustle, and talent.
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The Former Buddhist Monk Who Is Now A Tibetan Queer Icon
Tenzin Mariko is an aspiring makeup artist and dancer and perhaps the biggest star in a community that, until her arrival, had been bereft of LGBT idols.
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Why Chester Bennington's Death Hurts So Much
Linkin Park’s lead vocalist helped me and so many of my friends get through difficult times.
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Read This Very Short Story About What It's Like To Be An Aging Werewolf
"I used to wake up in strange places. I'd be covered in blood, but alive."
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51 Gorgeous Tattoo Ideas For Booklovers
Books and ink just go together.
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