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For The First Time, We Can Imagine Ourselves In Lead Roles
Drew Powell and Jada Pinkett Smith on FOX's Gotham. Jessica Miglio / FOX This winter and spring, up-and-coming actors will clamor for roles on television pilots that may or may not exist next fall....
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How I Found Myself When My Skin Changed Its Identity
I do not “suffer” from my skin. It is a living work of art. Illustration based on a photo of the author. Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed Two white teardrops seem to leak out of my mouth. On my thigh a small...
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Rihanna And The Radical Power Of "Carefree Black Girl" Celebrity
Stuart Wilson / Getty Images Rihanna’s wins come in stunning, rapid succession. Just a few days after the March 26 release of her latest single, "Bitch Better Have My Money," she enjoyed another...
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My Two Years Without An Ear
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I spent 26 years of my life without giving much thought to my ears. In retrospect, they were a lovely pair. When I lost my left one I could not help but notice that my remaining...
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This Is What Happens When You Undergo Gay Conversion Therapy
A protest against a conversion therapy conference in London in 2009. Nicolas Chinardet There was a single, terrible moment, while investigating conversion therapy, that changed me. I did not know that...
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What Do People Actually Do When They Have Sex?
BuzzFeed asked 50 people about the last time they had sex — and it wasn’t all P in the V, people. Extremely open, honest, and revealing answers ahead. Alice Mongkongllite Ever since we outgrew the...
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7 Essays You Need To Read This Week: Gay Conversion Therapy, Addiction, And...
This week, BuzzFeed exposed therapists who attempt to “cure” gay people. Read that and other stories from The Toast, The New Yorker, Salon, and more. "How I Found Myself When My Skin Changed Its...
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I Could Have Been Purvi Patel
Jenny Chang/BuzzFeed When I heard that an Indian-American woman named Purvi Patel had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the contradictory charges of feticide and neglect of a child — for...
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Self-Portrait Of The Artist As Ungrateful Black Writer
No, I’m not happy to “just be here.” Racism doesn’t vanish the moment we set foot into the ivory towers and glittering soirees of the literati. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed The November weekend after author...
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Rolling Stone Is Still Blaming UVA's Jackie For Its Mistakes
The magazine said Sunday it failed to properly report the story alleging a brutal gang rape out of “deference” to the alleged victim. But that’s not what the newly released Columbia Journalism School...
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Even If It's Not Discrimination, You're Still That Girl
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Although she lost, Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has been...
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My Best Friend The Schizophrenic
“Casper lit me up, from kindergarten through the end of high school, and I miss him.” Andrea Hickey / BuzzFeed / Thinkstock I'm going to call him Casper, because that's what I named him in two of my...
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This Public Shaming Is Not Like The Other
Author Jon Ronson instagram.com We are living in a cultural moment in which people with the normiest of normative identities — those jealously guarding an armful of poker chips in the game of social...
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What I Learned From Spending My Entire Twenties In Debt
Sian Butcher/BuzzFeed "I want to share what I learned about spending my entire twenties in debt," I said to a friend in the pub when we sneaked in a quick drink before dinner at a new restaurant we'd...
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Planning For A Future We Can Actually Imagine
I used to think the marriage equality movement was a distraction from more important queer issues. But that was before I went to an LGBT Wedding Expo in one of the only states where same-sex marriage...
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The '90s Asian Sitcom That Shows How Far We Haven't Come
Ian Chen, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler, and Constance Wu in Fresh Off the Boat. Ron Tom / ABC "You're not going to become actors," Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) scoffed last night on Fresh Off the...
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My Two Years Without An Ear
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I spent 26 years of my life without giving much thought to my ears. In retrospect, they were a lovely pair. When I lost my left one I could not help but notice that my remaining...
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This Is What Happens When You Undergo Gay Conversion Therapy
A protest against a conversion therapy conference in London in 2009. Nicolas Chinardet There was a single, terrible moment, while investigating conversion therapy, that changed me. I did not know that...
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"Law & Order" Is Good For What Ails You
Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed In 1990, the year Law & Order premiered, 87 people burned to death inside New York City’s Happy Land Social Club when the coat check girl’s ex-boyfriend doused the stairs...
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7 Essays To Read This Week: Miscarriages, Fembots, And Gay Marriage
One writer who suffered multiple miscarriages explains how stigma discourages Asian-American women from seeking reproductive and mental health care. Read that essay and other stories from BuzzFeed,...
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