Culture

The ritual of sitting at my makeup table and swiping on mascara and blush is one that centers me a little for the day ahead.

Makeup And The Kardashians As Self-Care

I don’t know what you escape into when you’re overwhelmed these days, but for me? It’s makeup. That’s where the Kardashian binges come in.

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Since listening to MFM and becoming a fan, I’ve joined lots of Facebook groups full of thousands of people who talk about it in the open.

Community, Murder, & Feminism On The Podcast My Favorite Murder

On My Favorite Murder, they find ways to talk about darkness that makes it less horrifying. If you can laugh then you can heal, that much I know.

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We should show (not say) "thank you" when we feel gratitude.

What Happens When You Stop Expecting A "Thank You"​

Something happened that made me snap back to reality and get off my pedestal. In fact, it made me stop expecting to get a “thank you” altogether.

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Illustration by Charlotte Klemm

 How To Get The Most Out Of Pisces Season (Even If You Aren't A Pisces)

It's Pisces Season! Pisces is the last of the water signs, and the final in the wheel of the Zodiac. Pisces or not, each sign has a presence in all of us.

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I suggest that no story, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, is real. (Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash)

Fact And Fiction Are Different Truths

The more I read, the more I’m convinced that there’s no meaningful difference between fiction and the memoir we call nonfiction.

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It is easier to hate what we want than to pursue it.

Women, Other Women Are Not Your Enemy

I’ve habitually, if unconsciously, compared myself to other white women who, in far greater numbers than women of color, are granted competitor status in America’s Olympics of life.

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 It makes zero sense to me why we continually belittle women in a conversation that they have been trying to have with us for decades.

On Gray Areas And Why Men Should Listen More

It makes zero sense to me why we continually belittle women in a conversation that they have been trying to have with us for decades.

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Innocent women are the prey for Dracula — showing that no woman is safe, much like now. (image via Wikicommons)

Dracula Is Really Just Every Rapist And Abuser You Know

What's more emblematic of the horrors of patriarchy than Dracula films and literature?

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