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So You're Still Living in the City
It’s easy in your 40s to feel like other folks aren’t keeping up their part of the bargain.
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I Was a Teen Drag Princess
What I got was some happy form of wrought attention, stolen from the boys the way some men steal a kiss.
Catching Up With Caitlin (After 31 Years)
Plus: improved toilet seat guidelines, and a better way to get your news.
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How to Write a Dream Syllabus
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How to Write a Dream Syllabus
If your syllabus is scar tissue, then who is your syllabus for?
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How to Write a Slow Book
Plus Eve Sedgwick, ordering your coffee by Pantone® tone, and the swift but heavy passing of time.
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Super Sloppy Double Issue!
Bursting like fireworks with tips and stories to take to whatever outdoor summertime fun you have coming up.
When the World Makes You Stupid
If the bigness of the world scares you, you’re going to need to make it smaller.
Gemini Season, or My Fellow Evil Twins
For much of my life I’d accepted that the date of my conception made me innately the sort of person who would lie to your face and betray you.
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Dropping the T from LGBT
When you think that rights are due only to some people, and yet you're still not one of them, denying rights to others seems like an especially craven…
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How to Be a Mama's Boy
In honor of my mother this Mother’s Day, I’m trying to resist turning her into a character.
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