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• PRACTICING MEDIOCRITY
• you can’t simply decide to be a different person
• Black, gay and graying gracefully in love
• The False Promise of Morning Routines
• How Social Media Shapes Our Identity
• on Writing on Your Own Terms
• fantady failed to see me, so i wrote myself in
• Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World!
• The People You Will Fall In Love With In Your 20s
• I don’t feel positive about my body and I shouldn’t have to
• I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers
• The Strained Relationship Between Black Mothers And Their Daughters
• ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’
• The 'queer aesthetic' is deeper than rainbow merch
• my gender is: mind your business
• you're not lazy, bored or unmotivated
• from fomo to jomo: the joy of missing out
• i am not always very attached to being alive
• mother, writer, monster, maid
• the queerness of bruce sprigsteen

TO READ

• the story of loneliness
• Self-doubt can actually help you bloom — and it all starts with how you talk to yourself
• Do You Keep a Failure Résumé? Here’s Why You Should Start.
• How these 4 women completely changed their lives in a year
• 9 ways Tumblr changed the internet
• the invention of heterosexuality
• 14 Things About Life I Need To Remind Myself Of Every Day
• Out There: On Not Finishing
• Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma
• The History of Loneliness
• loneliness is other people
• the true meaning of nostalgia
• how social media shapes our identity
• the internet is rotting
• what if you could do it all over
• how nothingness became everything we wanted
• lonelines: coping with the gap where friends used to be
• the end times are here, and i am at target
• on online
• the internet is flat
• why can't we be friends
• the dissonance of love
• love and pain relief
• indigenous love: when being who we are is resistance
• ugly, bitter and true
• the epidemic of gay loneliness
• am i too weird and contradictory to find love?
• a black legacy, wrapped in fur
• all the letter i'll never send
• brazil at work: black and held back
• does your daughter knows is ok to be angry?
• 38 lesbian magazines that burned brightly, died hard, left a mark
• i am not a pretty woman. and that's nevr felt more like a crime
• forbbiden love: the ww2 letters between two men
• Stud Lesbians, Explained
• Queering the Black Press: Remembering BLK Magazine
• In Newly Found Audio, A Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out 'Was An Absolute Necessity'
• Searching for Black Queer History in Sensational Newspapers
• Black and Pink: A Quick Look at Queer Black History
• Can Reading Make You Happier?
• Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy
• the tiny white people in our heads
• Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankins
• I Was Surrounded by “Final Girls” in School, Knowing I’d Never Be One
• When Black Excellence Isn't Enough
• Reading Is a Competition Now
• Motorcycle Leathers and the Construction of Masculine Identities Among Homosexual Men
• On Liking Women
• Reclaiming “Bisexual”
• When Writing Fiction Hurts the People You Love
• Have we got it wrong on dysphoria? Abigail Thorn discusses trans healthcare
• Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators
• The play deficit
• the beauty-hapiness conection
• Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language
• What Industrial Societies Get Wrong About Childhood
• Great books are still great
• When Will My Sense of Linear Time Come Back
• Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two
• What If You Could Do It All Over?