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Why I Won’t Be Buying a PS5
Do I really want the future of gaming to be the future I’m worried about?

Won’t You Please Consider The Noble Profession of Post-Dystopian Teaching
Why you should consider (the noble profession of) (Post-Dystopian) teaching!

It’s Not Me, It’s Porn
Work is work; for some people it just happens to involve a lot more porn.

Physical Touch: Quarantine’s Forgotten Love Language
Quarantine calls for keeping a distance of six feet apart between yourself and others. How has love stretched past six feet for these three couples?
Dear ______
The people who change us don’t always stay. But here’s to the lessons they teach us anyways.

Why Do We Keep Wanting to Change the People We Love?
If love is an uphill battle, do we continue fighting to keep our toxic loved ones, or do we let go for the sake of our own peace?

Embracing the Gap: Five Tips to Living Happily with Vaginismus
“I’ve never been able to have vaginal sex without experiencing immense pain, and it’s something I’ve spent years trying to find a solution to.”

Look, Mom, I’m Grieving!
How I learned to stop suppressing and learned to accept love, despite loss.

What is Love? Baby Don’t Hurt Me
Strong, confident, and powerful: the collective experiences of women who overcame abusive relationships.

Love Can Be Without Sound, But Not Without Language
“For the first time in my life, I started to imagine what it was like for Gong Gong, living in a world where sounds are not relevant and even the loudest scream sounds like a whisper.”

We Women
“Under the tradition that only the sons could carry on the family line, we feared that we let our family down, for the reasons that were out of our control.”

(I Think) I Love You: The Parents I Never Knew
As an adopted kid, I was sure that I loved my birth parents and they loved me. But what does that mean when we’ve never known each other?

My Dad, Minus Relationship
Parent relationships are complicated, especially when they’re ruined at every step. But are they unsalvageable?

How Queer Youth are Navigating Quarantined Life in Non-Affirming Homes
Only 24% of [queer] youth can ‘definitely’ be themselves as an LGBTQ person at home.” How are they managing to cope in these uncertain times without regular routines and support systems?

The Art of Staying Soft: A Trans Woman/Femme in Academia
Surviving/Studying Violence and Searching for Community: A practice of loving/breathing beyond violence, as “my loneliness keeps me going”...

Artist Highlight: Marginalized Voices
Where would you be if your story was not told? Five artists are telling stories that matter to them and their communities in a unique and beautiful way.

Environmental Racism? What’s That All About?
A deep dive into environmental justice, environmental racism, and the communities they affect.

Black Muslims: Being Dealt the Short End of the Stick
Being a Black Muslim comes with racism, Islamaphobia, and not enough support from the Islamic community.

The Ballad of Black Batman
A tale of Twitter threads, heroic legacies, and how Marvel already did it better.

“I hate my nose, wbu?”
Filipinx roots run deep, but apparently only white blood is beautiful.

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